History Quotes

"The history of science is the history of successive paradigms, not of accumulating truth."

"The historian of science may be tempted to suppose that Newton's laws were always there."

"Scientists are not logicians but practitioners working within historical contexts."

"The past of science, like all history, is a record of human endeavor."

"Scientific progress is not inevitable but contingent on historical circumstances."

"History shows humanity's struggle between fragmentation and wholeness."

"In the development of science, the most important steps are always the most apparent retroactively."

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, so much as because its opponents eventually die."

"The reason we have to read history is that it contains models of various kinds of human experience that we cannot hope to have in our actual life."

"The key to the future is the past, understood rightly."

"History teaches us that the future will surprise us."

"History is not just the past; it is a guide for the future."

"The present generation does not know what past generations have suffered."

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents, but rather because they eventually die."

"One finds it strange to turn to past scientific theories in order to find forgotten truths."

"The history of science shows that many confident beliefs were later abandoned."

"The history of thought shows how philosophical questions guide scientific progress."

"We should study history to avoid repeating its mistakes in our scientific theories."

"In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has always been claimed that religion must adapt itself to the current findings of science."

"The historical origin of culture lies in magic and in religion."

"The story of human progress is not one of continuous upward ascent."

"The history of mathematics reflects human progress and ingenuity."

"The history of mathematics is the history of human thought itself."

"History shows us that breakthroughs require intellectual courage."

"History instructs us that today's impossibilities become tomorrow's commonplaces."

"The history of physics is the history of human consciousness expanding its capacity for understanding."

"What we call the history of science is a record of how our understanding of the world has improved."

"One aspect of the Copernican revolution was the discoverythat the earth was not the center of the universe."

"The true domain of history is not documents and monuments but human thoughts and actions."

"If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science."