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Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

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… science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

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My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older.

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Science like religion implies disinterestedness, earnestness, austerity.

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The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.

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The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.

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I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.

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The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence to my readers.

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Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.

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Science tends to destroy the darkness where evil and injustice breed, but there is also some element of beauty and poetry in that darkness.

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The more science enters into our lives, the more it must be "humanized," and there is no better way to humanize it than to study its history.

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From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.

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A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.

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The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.

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The main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages was the creation of the experimental spirit and this was primarily due to the Muslims down to the 12th century.

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Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.

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I like to think of the constant presence in any sound Republic of two guardian angels: the Statistician and the Historian of Science. The former keeps his finger on the pulse of Humanity.

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Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way.

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Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

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