Amusement Quote by Gilbert Burnet

It often happens that the mind of a person who is learning a new science has to pass through all the phases which the…

— Stanislao Cannizzaro

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by…

— Max Horkheimer

... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but…

— Lazare Carnot

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

— Philo

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

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge…

— Lisa Randall

I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination…

— Ada Lovelace

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

— Ernst Mach

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully…

— Marilyn Ferguson

“We tend to see math and science as a steady state of facts rather than as the accumulated knowledge of linear traditions. As Korzybski…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

— Craig Venter