History Quote by Thomas Kuhn

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or…

— David Hume

Science is a form of arrogance control.

— Anonymous

Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

— Kedar Joshi

Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they…

— I. Bernard Cohen

“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“this attempt to control … We are talking about Western attitudes that are five hundred years old. They began at the time when Florence, Italy, was…

— Michael Crichton

“As science attained unprecedented power through its ability to predict and control certain limited aspects of nature, it also began to overshadow our understanding…

— Dean Radin

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science ...

— Barack Obama