May Quote by William Whewell

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts.

— James Bryant Conant

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

— James Bryant Conant

It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can…

— Anonymous

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 progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike

— Anonymous

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully…

— Marilyn Ferguson

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

— Jean Paul

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

“Progression halts and learning retrogrades once a haphazard ideology transpires. A nexus of theories can’t disprove one single fact, and a farraginous of opinions…

— Calvin W. Allison

“The truth is that science started its modern career by taking over ideas derived from the weakest side of the philosophies of Aristotle's successors.…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The history of science is the back-and-forth movement of trial-and-error advances and retreats, punctuated by moments of brilliance and marred by periods of excess.”

— Robert A. Burton

“It would seem that the scientific revolution involved not just a progressive transformation of scientific theory, but also a transformation in what were considered…

— Alan F. Chalmers