Nature Quote by Kenneth Patchen

“However, the Scientific Revolution freed humankind from this conviction. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.”

— Anonymous

“Science is the most effective, efficient and magnificent path that leads towards the salvation of humankind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable…

— Anonymous

The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other…

— John William Strutt

“Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose our views of science are ultimate; that there are no…

— Humphrey Davy

“scientists rush to publish in order to gain the benefits associated with being the first to have made a particular advancement.”

— Eric von Hippel

Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now see scientific…

— Charles Lindbergh

“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 scientific revolution was, in many ways, a by-product of mysticism and magic. In fact, once the tangled origins of modern science are unravelled,…

— John N. Gray

About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".

— Herbert Butterfield