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..…

- George Sarton

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

- George Sarton

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

- George Sarton

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…

- George Sarton

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…

- George Sarton

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…

- George Sarton

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…

- George Sarton

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…

- George Sarton

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

- George Sarton