Ideas Quote by Craig Venter

History repeats, but science reverberates.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in…

— James D. Watson

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

— Alfred the Great

Certainly science has moved forward. But when science progresses, it often opens vaster mysteries to our gaze. Moreover, science frequently discovers that it must…

— Loren Eiseley

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

— Thomas Kuhn

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

— James D. Watson

As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were…

— J. Allen Hynek

It often happens that the mind of a person who is learning a new science has to pass through all the phases which the…

— Stanislao Cannizzaro

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

— Moby

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

— Danica Patrick

This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not.…

— C.P. Snow