Example Quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the…

— John William Draper

“The history of science is the back-and-forth movement of trial-and-error advances and retreats, punctuated by moments of brilliance and marred by periods of excess.”

— Robert A. Burton

The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.

— Edwin Boring

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of…

— Muhammad Iqbal

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of…

— C. V. Raman

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be…

— Alan Lightman

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

Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know…

— Thomas Hobbes

I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences,…

— Ian Hacking

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

— Thomas Hobbes

The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for…

— George Sarton

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which…

— Thomas Kuhn