Ancient Quote by Arthur Koestler

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal…

— Arthur Koestler

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.

— Freeman Dyson

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has…

— Walt Whitman

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy…

— Blaise Cendrars

All science is transcendental or else passes away.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The way of science is paved with discarded theories which were once declared self-evident;”

— Karl R. Popper

The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a…

— D. H. Lawrence

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a…

— William James

Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and…

— Nikola Tesla

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

— Miguel De Unamuno

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

— Abdus Salam