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Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history. -- Fred Saberhagen
If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history. -- Eric Metaxas
It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian. -- Lee Strobel
Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne. -- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne. -- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense. -- Kenneth R. Miller
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. -- E. O. Wilson
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. -- Barbara Tuchman
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
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. -- Walter Jon Williams
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. -- Ralph Adams Cram
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
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
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
Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors. -- Stanley B. Prusiner
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. -- Robert A. Heinlein
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. -- Richard Dawkins
We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too many people are scientifically illiterate, often having been put off science at school. -- Robert Winston
The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking. -- Megan Smith
I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects. -- Jack L. Chalker
Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic about the methods we use. When we need to do history, we should do history. When we need to study political science, we should study political science. -- Thomas Piketty
I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. There's no question that various victors throughout history have flat out lied about certain events or written themselves into things, and then you come along and you find out that this disproves that. -- David S. Goyer
History repeats, but science reverberates. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
History is the science of people. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
History is and should be a science. -- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. -- Martin Lewis Perl
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. -- Barbara Tuchman
History is a science, no more and no less. -- J. B. Bury
History is the science of what never happens twice. -- Paul Valery
History is as much an art as a science. -- Ernest Renan
History is the science of things which are not repeated. -- Paul Valery
Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history. -- Dean Hamer
Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art. -- Don Spencer
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history. -- Auguste Comte
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies. -- Ayn Rand
History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex. -- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense. -- Kedar Joshi
There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now. -- Allen Ginsberg
The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements. -- Charles Fort
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. -- Jill Lepore
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. -- John Henry Newman
Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd. -- Max Brooks
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. -- James Henry Breasted
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. -- Joseph Campbell
America 2012: The Learning Channel has HoneyBooBoo, History Channel has PawnStars: and the Science Channel has PumpkinChunkin -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. -- Evelyn Fox Keller
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles. -- Abdus Salam
Tarot is a practice rich with history and cultural knowledge. It is a science of the mind. -- Benebell Wen
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization. -- Max Born
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. -- Thomas Kuhn
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind. -- Imre Lakatos
The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic. -- Philip Roth
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance -- Clifford Geertz
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. -- Clifford Geertz
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature. -- Ahmed Zewail
Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks. -- Lloyd DeMause
We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific. -- Jared Diamond
It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science. -- Samir Okasha
I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. -- David S. Goyer
History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art. -- Johann Gustav Droysen
If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance "God". -- Jerry A. Coyne
History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ... -- Phyllis McGinley
You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that. -- Christopher Kelk Ingold
You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature. -- Paul Lauterbur
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
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being. -- Karl Popper
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. -- Leslie Fiedler
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end. -- David O. McKay
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure. -- Charles Darwin
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. -- Ray Bradbury
Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error. -- Mortimer Adler
History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind. -- Irving Langmuir
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. -- Jared Diamond
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
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
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
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth. -- James Altucher
I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable. -- David Brooks
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
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history -- Iain Banks
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. -- Karl Popper
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . -- Upton Sinclair
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
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
By philosophy, history, economics and science, all knowledge and wisdom, humanity may eventually arrive at the awareness of its own oneness.... Sudipta Das -- Sudipta Das
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
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. -- Sam Cooke
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
Disturbing and intriguing. The Synchronicity Factor is much more than a page-turning thriller, for its remarkable plot is rooted in real science and real history. -- Peter Lovesey
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
...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
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination. -- Freeman Dyson
The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did. -- Isaac Asimov
I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology. -- Barack Obama
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
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. -- Norman Spinrad
The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe. -- Richard Dawkins
Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and nonliving systems. -- Fritjof Capra
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. -- Mario Cuomo
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. -- Mario Cuomo
History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed. -- Thomas Kuhn
[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science. -- Edward Gibbon
[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it. -- Edward Victor Appleton
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
Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history. -- Jacques Barzun
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present. -- A. A. Gill
Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. Itâ??s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet. -- David Helvarg
Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction. -- Peter Singer
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought. -- Thomas Carlyle
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge. -- C. V. Raman
The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I'm intrigued by that possibility. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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 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. -- Mehmet Murat ildan

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