George Sarton Quotes


If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.


Citations

Sarton, George. A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece. Harvard University Press, 1952, p. xiv.

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George Sarton
George Sarton
  • Born: August 31, 1884
  • Died: March 22, 1956
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George Alfred Leon Sarton was a Belgian-born American chemist and historian. He is considered the founder of the discipline of the history of science as an independent field of study. He has a significant importance in the history of science and his most influential work was the Introduction to the History of Science, which consists of three volumes and 4,296 pages. Sarton ultimately aimed to achieve an integrated philosophy of science that provided a connection between the sciences and the humanities, which he referred to as "the new humanism".