History Of Science Quotes

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History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it.

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that.

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.

Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and nonliving systems.

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I'm intrigued by that possibility.

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

Science is taught like the history of science, and it's boring. Doing science fair, anything that's project-based learning, that involves field trips, that's really valuable.

Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

Some astrophysicists have convinced themselves that the fifth significant figure of the fine structure constant has changed over the past ten billion years.

It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

The impulse to all movement and all form is given by [the golden ratio], since it is the proportion that summarizes in itself the additive and the geometric, or logarithmic, series.

Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.

Science does nothing for man spiritually, and organized religion demands blind faith in illogical liturgy that was never meant to be taken literally!