Ancient Quote by James Henry Breasted

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of…

— Peter Medawar

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of…

— Archibald Geikie

History is the science of people.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

— Auguste Comte

Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they…

— I. Bernard Cohen

History is the invention of historians.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

— Lion Feuchtwanger

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

It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

History is a science, no more and no less.

— J. B. Bury