Compression Quote by John William Draper

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

— Kedar Joshi

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

The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Karl Popper

We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history…

— Karl Marx

The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not…

— Michael E. DeBakey

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

“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

History is a science, no more and no less.

— J. B. Bury

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

— Karl Popper

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