Assuming Quote by George Sarton

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

— Larry Wilmore

Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero - the Greeks,…

— Seth Shostak

Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a…

— D. H. Lawrence

“The scientific world view works so well, explains so much and resonates so harmoniously with the most advanced parts of our brains that in…

— Carl Sagan

The irrefutable fact is that Christianity gave birth to modern science. The scientific revolution began with the Protestant Reformation and the Bible played a…

— Glen Rambharack

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it…

— Anonymous

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If…

— Arthur Eddington

“Here indeed was the great defect of the Greek mind: it was not disciplined; it lacked limiting and steadying traditions; it moved freely in…

— Will Durant

“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by the decay…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“SCIENCE AROSE ONLY IN Europe because only medieval Europeans believed that science was possible and desirable. And the basis of their belief was their…

— Rodney Stark