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  • The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

    Ideas   Two   Technique  
    J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.75, Springer Science & Business Media
  • The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.

    John William Draper (1875). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...”, p.6, New York, D. Appleton
  • To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

  • Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33, like Riemann before him. Working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years' worth of Western mathematics on his own. The tragedy of his life is that much of his work was wasted rediscovering known mathematics.

    Life   Science   Men  
    "Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension". Book by Michio Kaku, March 24, 1994.
  • The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

    Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.67, Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud, clear, piercing cry of 'design!' The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science. The discovery rivals those of Newton and Einstein, Lavoisier and Schrödinger, Pasteur, and Darwin. The observation of the intelligent design of life is as momentous as the observation that the earth goes around the sun.

    "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.
  • Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

    Imre Lakatos (1978). “Philosophical Papers”
  • It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic .

    Wine   Men   Psychology  
    Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.408, Courier Corporation
  • If someone could actually prove scientifically that there is such a thing as a supernatural force, it would be one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science. So the notion that somehow scientists are resisting it is ludicrous.

    "E.O. Wilson: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 5, 2009.
  • It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America.

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

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

    "London calling" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. July 02, 2004.
  • The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

    Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.260, Hamilton Books
  • One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

  • Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs.

    Real   Science   Self  
  • I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.

    "William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong". Interview with Geeta Dayal, www.wired.com. September 13, 2012.
  • One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

    Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers
  • [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.

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

    Writing   Years   Paper  
    "2 M.R.I. Pioneers Win Nobel Prize" by Nicholas Wade, www.nytimes.com. October 6, 2003.
  • You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that.

  • The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.

  • Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.

    Robert Anton Wilson (1977). “Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati”, New Falcon Pubns
  • The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

    1960 Conjectures and Refutations (published1963), ch.10.
  • It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far beyond its original scope. Suffice it to mention Boltzmann's work on kinetic theory, Planck's discovery of quantum theory or Einstein's theory of spontaneous emission, which were all based on the second law of thermodynamics.

    "Time, Structure and Fluctuations". Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1977.
  • Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

    Science   Long   Doe  
    Charles Darwin (2010). “Natural Selection”, p.202, Bibliolis Books
  • To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.

    Science   Discovery   Two  
    "The Organization of Thought" (1917)
  • 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.

    Men   Amplification   May  
    Sir Archibald Geikie (1905). “The Founders of Geology”
  • Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with; and, not unfrequently, in spite of a long career of usefulness, turned out to be wholly erroneous in the long run.

    Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.62, Cambridge University Press
  • I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One finds that in the history of science, almost every problem has been worked out by someone else. This should not discourage anyone from pursuing his own path.

    Science   Ideas   Effort  
  • 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.

    Race   Copernicus   Flags  
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