Century Quote by Bertrand Russell

The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation…

— I. Bernard Cohen

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the…

— Norman Lockyer

Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time.…

— Michael Crichton

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of…

— Archibald Geikie

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

— Jacob Bronowski

“It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in…

— Stanley Schmidt

“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

Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association…

— Albert Einstein

Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences…

— Arthur Peacocke

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been…

— Mark Zuckerberg

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

— Karl Popper