Peter Ritchie Calder Quote

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.


Man and the Cosmos: The Nature of Science Today, Chapter II (p. 17), Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers. 1968


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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...