Abstract Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been won in…

— George Sarton

“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

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

— H. P. Blavatsky

It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia and possibly…

— George Sarton

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

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

— Carl Sagan

Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought;…

— Richard P. Feynman

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and I think…

— Freeman Dyson

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century…

— Carl Sagan