Antiquity Quote by Thomas Paine

The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by…

— Anonymous

“The Romans' contribution to science was mostly limited to butchering antiquity's greatest mathematician, burning the Library of Alexandria, and slowly stifling the sciences that…

— Petr Beckmann

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

— Louis Pasteur

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

— Bertrand Russell

Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate…

— Jerry A. Coyne

“The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate ‘residues’ of the ancient traditional sciences.”

— René Guénon

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the…

— Louis Pasteur

Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and…

— John O'Keefe

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

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

— Voltaire

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

— Marie Curie