18th century Quote by Bill Bryson

The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in…

— John Herschel

If you go back to the 17th century, scientists generally weren't rewarded much at all for sharing discoveries, and as a result, they conducted…

— Michael Nielsen

Some of the most important discoveries that scientists have made were not what they were seeking at the time.

— Jamie Hyneman

“Modern scientific culture has evolved from its roots in the ancient world and has become a complex web of many highly specialized disciplines. Gone…

— Christopher Knight & Alan Butler

The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in…

— John Herschel

Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result of 400…

— Seth Shostak

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

— Gertrude Stein

The Scientific Revolution, that remarkable transformation of European thought that occurred between approximately 1550 and 1700, brought with it an ascendancy of the experimental…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by…

— Isaac Asimov

I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific…

— Thomas Huxley

“So modern scientists are the pious cult of yesteryear?” "Exactly. Their dated dogma of immediacy and parsimony, while digestible, is ultimately untrue and will…

— Larry Fort

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of…

— Robert Barany