Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American mathematician Otto E. Neugebauer.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Otto Eduard Neugebauer was an Austrian-American mathematician and historian of science who became known for his research on the history of astronomy and the other exact sciences as they were practiced in antiquity and the Middle Ages. By studying clay tablets, he discovered that the ancient Babylonians knew much more about mathematics and astronomy than had been previously realized. The National Academy of Sciences has called Neugebauer "the most original and productive scholar of the history of the exact sciences, perhaps of the history of science, of our age."
... All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes.
There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.
No one has yet invented a system of education that is capable of ruining everyone.
It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.