Nobel-laureate Quotes

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. ... If sunbeams were weap...

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aestheticall...

I am an atheist.

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators...

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It...

The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two abso...

...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity—that is to say, the fund...

The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvary...

In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining...

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their ...

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly inte...

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can hap...

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is s...

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective prope...

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, ...

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to...

I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more ...

Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of mode...

As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge...

As chemists, we must rename [our] scheme and insert the symbols Ba, La, Ce in place of Ra, Ac, Th. A...

If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.

While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even mo...

I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting i...

Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master u...

I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to b...

During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a sour...

Light brings us the news of the Universe.

It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principl...

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacte...

There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the huma...

We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which...

The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't eve...

It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end...

It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as inc...

Now I know what the atom looks like.

The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ...

It is because I know all that science can bring to the world that I shall continue my efforts to ens...