Calvino Archive Quote by Italo Calvino

“They told the truth, but they buried it so deep in the footnotes of scientific reports and the jargon of obscure journals that almost…

— Mary Mycio

“When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.”

— Eugène Delacroix

If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.

— Edsger Dijkstra

“Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire.”

— Carl Sagan

“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no…

— Alberto Manguel

“No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.”

— Stephen M. Stigler

“...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.”

— E.J.H. Corner

“Every time a scientist publishes a good piece of work, she helps to maintain and raise the standards for what is true. We have…

— Deborah M. Gordon

“…the facts of history all appeared to me like specimens in a herbarium, permanently dried, so that it was easy to forget they had…

— André Gide

“Sometimes science fiction does become scientific discovery.”

— John Brockman

“#Science is not carved on the tablets of marble. Theories have arisen, worked, challenged, and superseded.”

— Brian Silver

“If you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built.”

— Arthur R Marshall