“To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.”
A Course of Positive Philosophy (1832 - 1842) [Six volumes]
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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)

New millennium, An Interview with Paul A. Samuelson, 2003

Source: Philosophy of Education, p. 86.
“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.”
Source: Reflections on Gender and Science

Quoted in "Vikram A. Sarabhai".
Source: [The Tenth Dr. Vikram A. Sarabhai Festival of Performing Arts, https://www.prl.res.in/~library/sarabhai_v_quotes.pdf, PRL.res.in, 12 September 2019, https://web.archive.org/web/20190627192004/https://www.prl.res.in/~library/sarabhai_v_quotes.pdf, 12 September 2019, 28]

Cited in: David Ballin Klein (1977) The Unconscious: Invention Or Discovery? p. iii;
A History of Experimental Psychology, 1929

Source: Essai de semantique, 1897, p. 112 ; as cited in: Schaff (1962:16).

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
Poetry and Imagination
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)