Research Quote by Gene Wolfe

“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

— Sydney Brenner

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor…

— George Sarton

The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because…

— David Gross

“Seldom – perhaps never – has science been driven forward more swiftly and successfully by animosity.”

— Bill Bryson

“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

“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 increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of…

— Polykarp Kusch

If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying…

— Richard P. Feynman

“Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire.…

— Carl Sagan

“The history of science may be described as the history of the attempts, and the failures, of men "to see things as they are."…

— M.M. Pattison Muir

“It is a fact of life that oversimplified accounts of the development of science are often necessary in its teaching. Most scientific progress is…

— Jim Al-Khalili