About Quote by David Christian

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 historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.

— Edwin Boring

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Biology has finally opened up to achieve a unifying embrace of all its disciplines. We're seeing the renaissance of what could be called scientific…

— E. O. Wilson

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

— Auguste Comte

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of…

— Peter Medawar

More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this should mean…

— Ronald Fisher

“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

I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences,…

— Ian Hacking

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by…

— Franz Boas

“The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences. [All the other sciences] have a relation, greater or lesser, to…

— David Hume