Birth Quote by I. Bernard Cohen

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

— Bertrand Russell

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the…

— Norman Lockyer

“Modern science was born through the Scientific Revolution in the 11th/17th century at a time when, as we saw earlier, European philosophy had itself…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in…

— John Herschel

The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in…

— John Herschel

“The truth is that science started its modern career by taking over ideas derived from the weakest side of the philosophies of Aristotle's successors.…

— Alfred North Whitehead

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 birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no…

— Paul Davies

Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new…

— James Bryant Conant

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in…

— Stanley Schmidt

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 is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time.…

— Michael Crichton