Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they…

- I. Bernard Cohen

The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation of…

- I. Bernard Cohen

History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very featu…

- I. Bernard Cohen

All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionar…

- I. Bernard Cohen

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of sci…

- I. Bernard Cohen