First time Quote by Auguste Comte

History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws.

— Auguste Comte

“Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern…

— C.S. Lewis

The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because…

— David Gross

How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature…

— Steven Weinberg

“Real understanding of any scientific subject must include some knowledge of its historical growth; we cannot comprehend and accept modern concepts and theories without…

— Colin Cherry

Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by…

— Max Horkheimer

“The history of science is the back-and-forth movement of trial-and-error advances and retreats, punctuated by moments of brilliance and marred by periods of excess.”

— Robert A. Burton

When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and…

— Karl Pearson

At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us…

— Karl Mannheim

We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history…

— Karl Marx

Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.

— Karl Marx

Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new…

— James Bryant Conant