To know the history
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. Evelyn Fox Keller
Quotes for All
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. Evelyn Fox Keller
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. Ernst Mayr
[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. Edward Victor Appleton
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
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. Fritjof Capra
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. Freeman Dyson
Any scientist who tells you they know that GMOs are safe and not to worry about it, is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying. Nobody knows what the long-term effect will be. David Suzuki
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. David Helvarg
You ask whether I am going over to the history of science… no, I am not as old as that. Christopher Kelk Ingold
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 . Charles Sanders Peirce