science is the most revolutionary force in the world..

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is soo….

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

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity..

All men are our brothers. As far as the discovery of the truth is concerned, they are all working for the same purpose; they may be separated by the ….

Perhaps the main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages, was the creation of the experimental spirit, or more exactly its slow….

Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicis….

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..

The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circuma….

The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be satisfied wi….

We have reason to believe that when, during the crusades, Europe at last began to establish hospitals, they were inspired by the Arabs of near East..….

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance..

The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatne….

My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated wit….

It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia and possibly in oth….

Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. It….

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself..

If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embr….

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, p….

Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a natu….

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