Decades Quote by Hilary Putnam

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“even the most seemingly abstract, sublimely theoretical, mathematicized achievements of science have in reality moved only a step or two away from a prehistoric,…

— Stanisław Lem

“…once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being…

— Joseph Bertrand

Every scientist dreams of doing something that can help the world.

— Tu Youyou

“More than ever before, it was assumed that the methods of natural science could be—and should be—used to understand and solve the problems facing…

— Laura J. Snyder

science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in…

— Simone Weil

Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association…

— Albert Einstein

The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said-has…

— Anonymous

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course…

— John Dewey

“natural language will always remain the basic interpretation of, and reservoir for, the development of the artificial formalized languages of science.”

— Doris Bradbury

Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature,"…

— Thomas Huxley