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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
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
Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.
— Stephen M. Barr
If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.
— Nolan Bushnell
Art is science in the flesh.
— Jean Cocteau
Though biomedical science has vastly increased mankind's average life expectancy, the maximum has not changed in verifiable recorded history.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
— Edmund Beecher Wilson
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
— Abdus Salam
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
The line from psychologists is, if you've seen it before, it hasn't killed you yet.
— Derek Thompson
Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.
— Rivka Galchen
Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.
— John Coleman
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
For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.
— Mark Lynas
You ask whether I am going over to the history of science ... no, I am not as old as that.
— Christopher Kelk Ingold
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.
— David O. McKay
History is and should be a science.
— Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.
— Steven J. Carroll
History is distinguishedfrom nature precisely by the fact that it transforms science and passion by means of will. — Albert Camus
This clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.
— G.K. Chesterton
America 2012: The Learning Channel has HoneyBooBoo, History Channel has PawnStars: and the Science Channel has PumpkinChunkin
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Natures and features last until the grave
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
— Carl Sagan
There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.
— J. Arthur Thomson
Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history ... You spoil both.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The universe stood still and the universe continued on its path, travelling through endless time.
— D.B. Nielsen
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
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
In the history of the earth, the sun remains still.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer ... from a thousand questions?
— G.F. Smith
The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist.
— Jonathan Auxier
Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.
— Adam Nevill
I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.
— Jean-Andre De Luc
The History Of The Universe In Three WordsCHAPTER ONE
Bang!
CHAPTER TWO
sssss
CHAPTER THREE
crunch.
THE END — Iain M. Banks
To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
— Auguste Comte
Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one's adversaries to underestimate one's abilities."~Sherlock Holmes — Stephanie Osborn
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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
History is not a science, it's an art.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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
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
Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
— John Henry Newman
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
Let's train ourselves to not hate each other. We all come from the same consciousness in the mind.
— Allan Wesler
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
Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable.
— Bill Loguidice
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
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
— E. O. Wilson
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
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
To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.
— Spyridon Marinatos
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
History repeats, but science reverberates.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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
It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.
— Lee Strobel
He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.
— Dava Sobel
Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
— Flea
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
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
— James Henry Breasted
You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.
— Paul Lauterbur
