Activity Quote by Ernest Rutherford

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no…

— Paul Davies

If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago.…

— Fritjof Capra

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

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

— Brian Greene

Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission…

— Edward Teller

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 twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.

— Timothy Leary

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will…

— Freeman Dyson

Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the…

— Michael Crichton

“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

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

“Modern science was born through the Scientific Revolution in the 11th/17th century at a time when, as we saw earlier, European philosophy had itself…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr