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

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

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.

- 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

It would be foolish to give credit to Euclid for pangeometrical conceptions; the idea of geometry deifferent from the common-sense one never occurred…

- George Sarton

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

science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

- 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