History Quote by Paul Lauterbur

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and…

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

— Lion Feuchtwanger

“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

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

— Abdus Salam

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

Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But…

— David Christian

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 saga of nature defying common sense.

— Kedar Joshi

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

— Evelyn Fox Keller

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

— James D. Watson

I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started being so…

— Hanya Yanagihara