Quotes About History

I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

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

History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

History is a science, no more and no less.

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

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

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

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

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

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.