Peter Ritchie Calder Quotes

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Science is a river which the explorer may encounter at any point along its course. He can follow it either to its source or to its delta or both.

Peter Ritchie Calder

Science is the everlasting interrogation of Nature by Man.

Peter Ritchie Calder

"Science" and "Scientific" have become overcharged terms because they have been given an arrogance (often by the scientists themselves) or a huckster quality (by mendacious modern advertising) or a magical quality (because the language has become an abracadabra to the layman).

Peter Ritchie Calder

The history of science is not a spoil heap of accidental discoveries and random ideas. Rather it is like an archaeological dig in which a potsherd is meaningful in terms of the chronological layer in which it is found; i.e., of the culture in which it has its origins.

Peter Ritchie Calder

The genealogy of scientific discovery is important because every scientist inherits so much from his predecessors. Science is evolutionary, depending upon the intermarriage of ideas. The family tree of a major scientific discovery is usually more impressively international than that of the most august royal house.

Peter Ritchie Calder