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Tarot is a practice rich with history and cultural knowledge. It is a science of the mind. — Benebell Wen

My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer. — Daniel Goldstein

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology. — Michael J. Findley

Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek. — R. Curtis Venture

Today is the beginning of new history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. — Ellsworth Huntington

So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver's butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812. — Steve Vernon

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. — Evelyn Fox Keller

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

Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified. — Stephanie Osborn

Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century. — Ernst W. Mayr

Sorry has got to be the most over-used cliched get-out clause in the history of mankind. Tossed out flippantly without any real meaning or substance. — Siobhan Davis

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

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. — Edmund Beecher Wilson

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind. — Imre Lakatos

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles. — Abdus Salam

This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth. — James Altucher

How could history of science fail to be a source of phenomena to which theories about knowledge may legitimately be asked to apply? — Thomas S. Kuhn

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true. — Rivka Galchen

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. — Thomas Kuhn

It Begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible. — Steven Pinker

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. — Jill Lepore

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. — Michael E. DeBakey

History is distinguished
from nature precisely by the fact that it transforms science and passion by means of will. — Albert Camus

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments. — Jean-Andre De Luc

History is the science of things which are not repeated. — Paul Valery

For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers. — Mark Lynas

History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong. — Steven J. Carroll

In the history of the earth, the sun remains still. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

We cannot leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people — Nikki Giovanni

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies. — Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History. — J. Arthur Thomson

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense. — Kenneth R. Miller

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

The pyramid that can be constructed on the diameters of earth and moon bears the precise proportions of the Great Pyramid — Bonnie Gaunt

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. — David O. McKay

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

Many of the Cape employees work 16 to 18 hour shifts a day. The Cape area earns the title of number one in divorces for the whole country. — Martha Lemasters

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

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end. — David O. McKay

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. — Will Durant

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology. — Karl Marx

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

The History Of The Universe In Three Words
CHAPTER ONE
Bang!
CHAPTER TWO
sssss
CHAPTER THREE
crunch.
THE END — Iain M. Banks

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. — Konrad Lorenz

It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science. — Samir Okasha

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies. — Ayn Rand

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art. — Johann Gustav Droysen

Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult. — Adam Nevill

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense. — Kedar Joshi

In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to biological experience. — Ernst T. Krebs

The secrets of evolution, are time and death.
There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us. — Carl Sagan

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ... — Phyllis McGinley

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. — Bertrand Russell

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that. — Gillian Anderson

History is the science of people. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel. — Walter M. Fitch

From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature. — Ahmed Zewail

This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science: — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Like the pioneering Muslim scientists, Al Bukhari insisted on an empirical, organized method in the science of fiqh and hadith — Firas Alkhateeb

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history. — Fred Saberhagen

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance "God". — Jerry A. Coyne

A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser. — Euclid

From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue. — Edward Gibbon

The pollenless trees were genomed to repel bugs and birds; the stagnant air reeked of insecticide. — David Mitchell

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away ... it is fun to be alive at this point in history. — Anders Sandberg

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science. — Dan Brown

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

This clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion. — G.K. Chesterton

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. — Ray Bradbury

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. — Edwin Powell Hubble

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history. — Eric Metaxas

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

History is the science of what never happens twice. — Paul Valery

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

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought. — Kenneth E. Boulding

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history. — Ariel Durant

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history — Iain Banks

He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch. — Dava Sobel

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. — Joe Biden

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. — Joseph Campbell

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

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power. — Livy