History of Science
- Keith Thomas publishes Man and the Natural World: changing attitudes in England, 1500–1800.
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Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or science:
“The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony—periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“There are two great unknown forces to-day, electricity and woman, but men can reckon much better on electricity than they can on woman.”
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“We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.”
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