Accounts Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

“The truth is that science started its modern career by taking over ideas derived from the weakest side of the philosophies of Aristotle's successors.…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I have often wondered and even laughed at those who fancied that everything had been so consummately and absolutely investigated by an Aristotle or…

— William Harvey

“Ideas after Aristotle multiplied but did not progress.”

— John Mark Reynolds

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself.

— Jacob Bronowski

Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry…

— Claude Bernard

“Science does not yet know everything; nor does it pretend to, unlike religion. Included among the great mysteries are: Why and how the Cosmos…

— Albert Williams

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.

— Robert L. Park

“This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences…

— Averroes

This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as…

— George Herbert

Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry…

— Claude Bernard