“Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“... it should be remembered that the atomicity of electric charge has already found its expression in the specific numerical value of… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to… — Edward Victor Appleton Copy Share Image
“Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.” — Stephen M. Barr Copy Share Image
The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about everything, and this we do not… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“In short, the idea dawns that the one universal principle which possibly ... between force and structure, the embodiment of the Principle… — Marja de Vries Copy Share Image
“The focus of history and philosophy of science scholar Arthur Miller’s (2010) "137: Jung and Pauli and the Pursuit of Scientific Obsession"… — Todd Hayen Copy Share Image
“God is a pure mathematician!' declared British astronomer Sir James Jeans. The physical Universe does seem to be organised around elegant mathematical… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources… — John William Strutt Copy Share Image
The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and… — Michael E. DeBakey Copy Share Image
History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
“A good example of the archetypal ideas which the archetypes produce are natural numbers or integers. With the aid of the integers… — K. V. Laurikainen Copy Share Image
“Who amongst them realizes that between the Differential Calculus and the dynastic principle of politics in the age of Louis XIV, between… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The golden era of the golden number was the Italian renaissance. The expression divine proportion was coined by the great mathematician Luca… — Midhat Gazale Copy Share Image
“The description of this proportion as Golden or Divine is fitting perhaps because it is seen by many to open the door… — H.E. Huntley Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
“Fine Structure Constant: Fundamental numerical constant of atomic physics and quantum electrodynamics, defined as the square of the charge of the electron… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“The conclusion that the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom were acquainted with both the Fibonacci series and the Golden Section, says Stecchini,… — Peter Tompkins Copy Share Image
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“The unsolved problems of the physical world now seem even more formidable than those solved in the twentieth century. Though in application… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
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