Foundation Quote by Wilhelm Dilthey

There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history that can…

— Richard Lewontin

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of…

— Archibald Geikie

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the…

— John William Draper

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which…

— Thomas Kuhn

Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But…

— David Christian

The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary.

— Gerhard Herzberg

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of…

— Muhammad Iqbal

“The sciences paint an impersonal and objective account of the world, deliberately devoid of "meaning", telling us about origins and mechanics of life, by…

— John Barrow

“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