Age Quote by David Hume

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

“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though…

— Seneca

May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to…

— Anonymous

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

“The key to our scientific future,....is hidden in our past”

— Dan Brown

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in…

— Seneca the Younger

“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

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our…

— Sydney Brenner

How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter…

— Seneca the Younger

“None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have…

— Mary Shelley

[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed,…

— Max Weber

“Perhaps science does not develop by the accumulation of individual discoveries and inventions”

— Thomas S. Kuhn