Accounts Quote by James Bryant Conant

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a…

— Stephen Hawking

“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

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

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

— Debra Fischer

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“My science is based in voraciously wandering fact, luscious speculation, and spontaneous theory with a dash of prevarication. All of which are most likely…

— J. DeWayne Pierce

“The history of science is replete with abandoned concepts and theories. For instance, early modern scientists who tried to account for the movement of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is…

— Victor Hugo

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

— Anonymous

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

— Karl Popper

At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us…

— Karl Mannheim