Timeline of Scientific Discoveries

Timeline Of Scientific Discoveries

The timeline below shows the date of publication of possible major scientific theories and discoveries, along with the discoverer. In many cases, the discoveries spanned several years.

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Famous quotes containing the words scientific and/or discoveries:

    What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough ... had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.
    Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    However many discoveries we may have made in the land of self-love, there remain uncharted territories.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)