History Of Science

🇺🇸Thomas Kuhn

Philosophy

Western philosophy

1922–1996

"Out-of-date theories are not in principle unscientific because they have been discarded. That choice, however, makes it difficult to see scientific development as a process of accretion."

🇺🇸Stephen Jay Gould

Science

1941–2002

"As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far from cities and without human interference."

🇬🇧Jacob Bronowski

Literature

1908–1974

"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."

🇮🇱Yeshayahu Leibowitz

Science

Neo-Kantianism

1903–1994

"Only a religion addressed to life's prose, a religion of the dull routine of daily activity, is worthy of the name."

"The working of great administrations is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self-interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought."

🇫🇷Pierre Boutroux

Mathematics

1880–1922

"Ingels: Logic is invincible because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic."

"It is this pagan connection that has brought people like Koenrard Elst, David Frawley and many others in close collaboration with Hindu nationalists."

🇺🇸Carl Benjamin Boyer

Mathematics

1906–1976

"But what, after all, are the integers? Everyone thinks that he or she knows, for example, what the number three is — until he or she tries to define or explain it."

🇮🇹Lucio Russo

Mathematics

1944–2025

"Euclid … manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem to the study of finite numbers. This is exactly what contemporary mathematical analysis does."

"The only way to avoid becoming a metaphysician is to say nothing."

"Higher Mathematics for Chemical Students"

🇺🇸George Sarton

Science

Humanism

1884–1956

"Arabic science was the fruit of Semitic genius fertilized by the Iranian genius."

"The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical science–that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange."

🇺🇸George Brown Goode

Literature

1851–1896

"The exposition or exhibition and fair are primarily for the promotion of industry and commerce; the museum for the development of learning."