Historical Quote by Marie Curie

Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas…

— David Hume

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole…

— T. S. Eliot

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise...

— Paul Feyerabend

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting…

— Melanie Phillips

My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts…

— Richard Rhodes

My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles… That I have published so little is due to this same…

— Albert Einstein

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

— Albert Einstein

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast…

— David Eagleman

“Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind…

— T.S. Eliot

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the…

— Robert Penn Warren