Top Scientist Quotes
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our l...
Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
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alchemists, alchemy, effort, elixir, elixir of life, experience, historian, history, life, life extension
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(n.) One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from poster...
Antoine Lavoisier
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chemistry, discovery, french, invention, oxygen theory, posterity, science, scientific theory, scientist, theory
In the last four days I have got the (results) given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron , Nickel, Cobalt and Copper ... The chief result is that ... the result for any metal (is) quite easy to gue...
Henry Moseley
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atomic theory, atoms, chemistry, early death, elements, physics, pioneer, pioneering scientist, science, scientist
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the ear...
Tycho Brahe
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astronomer, astronomy, earth, energy, fatherland, hold firm, humanism, humanity, mind, politics
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say...
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
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adventure, certainty, criticism, emotion, fallacy, hope, infallibility, objectivity, science, scientist