Scientist Quotes

How does it happen that a properly endowed natural scientist comes to concern himself with epistemol...

Be brave. Be free from philosophies, prophets and holy lies. Go deep into your feelings and explore ...

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it...

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ough...

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of...

There were many women in the Soviet scientific community, proportionately more so than in the United...

As a scientist I have come to learn that information isonly as valuable as its source.

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws op...

Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one...

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would...

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to ...

Marvellous!" he repeated, looking up at me. "Look! The beauty--but that is nothing--look at the accu...

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the...

For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to ven...

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

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas w...

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believ...

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

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that...

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

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.