Accounts Quote by Victor Hugo

“the rigorously impersonal view of science might one day appear as having been a temporarily useful eccentricity rather than the definitively triumphant position which…

— William James

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a…

— Stephen Hawking

"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

— Jose Padilha

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

— Ezra Pound

The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached…

— Lewis Thomas

“I likewise thought—when I was solemnly first introduced to it at the age of thirteen—that “science” had fully explained the motions of the planets,…

— Peter Hitchens

“Science is a system of rational thought devised to investigate the world and establish the laws by which it operates. The scientist uses those…

— Joe Abercrombie

Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association…

— Albert Einstein

[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

“While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods for describing…

— Mike McRae