Galen Quote by William Harvey

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process…

— Will Cuppy

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several…

— Julien Benda

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

— Juana Inés de la Cruz

The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new…

— Edward Gibbon

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy.…

— Stephen Fry

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered.…

— Harlan Ellison

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.

— Lord Dunsany

“It is only rather recently that science has begun to make peace with its magical roots. Until a few decades ago, it was common…

— Philip Ball

Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton