Facts Quote by Paul Rogat Loeb

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and…

— Steven Johnson

“Greatest discoveries start with one small step”

— Mayur Ramgir

Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature,"…

— Thomas Huxley

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one…

— Isaac Asimov

“History sometimes reproduces, at a distance of many years, the same combinations of circumstances that generate great achievements. But nothing ever repeats itself in…

— Valerio Massimo Manfredi

“Breakthroughs rarely happen gradually. They happen when consistency crosses the threshold of inevitability.”

— Itayi Garande

Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to…

— Fabiola Gianotti

The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would…

— Richard Dawkins

Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?

— Anatol Rapoport

...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

History is the gradual instant

— Anne Michaels

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.

— Ira Erwin