Application Quote by Thomas Huxley

“It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the…

— Norman Lockyer

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the…

— Edward Thorndike

The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.

— Timothy Leary

The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising…

— Andrew Dickson White

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences…

— Anonymous

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

— Gertrude Stein

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“As the young have discovered, the secret divinity of the twentieth century is Science. But Science is incapable of forming character. The more people…

— Bruce Chatwin

The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation…

— I. Bernard Cohen

The Scientific Revolution, that remarkable transformation of European thought that occurred between approximately 1550 and 1700, brought with it an ascendancy of the experimental…

— Sherwin B. Nuland