Top Scientists Quotes

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their...

There is a curious idea among unscientific men that in scientific writing there is a common plateau of perfectionism. Nothing could be more untrue. The reports of biologists are the measure, not of th...

But of course these are scientists. Tell them to leave something alone, and all they want to do is poke it with a stick.

Where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told...

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

Magic is magic as long as humans can explain it logically!

Nine women possess the same rights as a man... to learning and knowledge.

Things remain paranormal, as long as we scientists don't reveal the underlying physical processes.

I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccu...

Dare to contradict the scientist, not because of your scripture, but because of your own rational thinking.

Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom.

There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use it to prove the nonexistence of the spiritual, but I simply can't see a chasm in between the two. Wha...

Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him t...