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

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.”

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Author:Evelyn Fox Keller

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

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Author:Jerry A. Coyne

“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.”

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Author:David Suzuki

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

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Book:Philosophical Papers

Source: Philosophical Papers

“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.”

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Author:Theodore von Karman

“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.”

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Book:Uncommon Sense

Source: Uncommon Sense

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

“Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found.”

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Author:Bill Nye

“In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.”

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Book:Selected Papers of Abdus Salam: (with Commentary)

Source: Selected Papers of Abdus Salam: (with Commentary)

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

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Book:Natural Selection

Source: Natural Selection

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

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Author:Karl Popper

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

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Author:Christopher Kelk Ingold

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

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Author:Peter Ackroyd

“History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being left out which most marks the spirit and life of the person. My own thesis is complementary: science taught ... without a sense of history is robbed of those very qualities that make it worth teaching to the student of the humanities and the social sciences.”