The History Of Quotes

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Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

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.

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”.

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

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

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

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

[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.

It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography and call it biography.

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

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

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.

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

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

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.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.

Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

I don't know anything about the history of music.

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

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

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.

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.

Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.

All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.

I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and the telescope expanded what scientists could do.

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

...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.

It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.

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

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.

I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.