Accounts Quote by Jonathan Swift

... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but…

— Lazare Carnot

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints…

— Albert Pike

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate ‘residues’ of the ancient traditional sciences.”

— René Guénon

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy…

— Blaise Cendrars

All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself…

— Roger Bacon

“While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in a straight…

— G.K. Chesterton

“It is a fact of life that oversimplified accounts of the development of science are often necessary in its teaching. Most scientific progress is…

— Jim Al-Khalili

The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences will be…

— Rupert Sheldrake

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and…

— Wilhelm Dilthey