Scientists Quotes
Most popular scientists quotes
Let me not seem to have lived in vain.
![If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton quote.](/img/q/70/370A-if-i-have-seen-a-little-further-it-is-by-isaac-newton.png)
If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
![Science distinguishes a Man of Honor from one of those Athletic Brutes whom undeservedly we call Heroes. - John Dryden quote.](/img/q/71/371A-science-distinguishes-a-man-of-honor-from-one-those-athletic-john-dryden.png)
Science distinguishes a Man of Honor from one of those Athletic Brutes whom undeservedly we call Heroes.
![I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the great masses. - J. Kepler quote.](/img/q/72/372A-i-much-prefer-the-sharpest-criticism-single-intelligent-man-thoughtless-j-kepler.png)
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the great masses.
![Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one—Marie, the famous Madame Curie—and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else. - Isaac Asimov quote.](/img/q/77/377A-pierre-curie-a-brilliant-scientist-happened-marry-still-more-brilliant-isaac-asimov.png)
Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one—Marie, the famous Madame Curie—and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.
![I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones. - Linus Pauling quote.](/img/q/19/33219A-i-have-a-lot-of-ideas-throw-away-bad-ones-linus-pauling.png)
I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.
![It is the duty of scientists to dispel ignorance. - Linus Pauling quote.](/img/q/28/33328A-it-is-the-duty-of-scientists-dispel-ignorance-linus-pauling.png)
It is the duty of scientists to dispel ignorance.
![The scientist, if he is to be more than a plodding gatherer of bits of information, needs to exercise an active imagination. - Linus Pauling quote.](/img/q/72/33472A-the-scientist-if-he-is-to-be-more-than-plodding-linus-pauling.png)
The scientist, if he is to be more than a plodding gatherer of bits of information, needs to exercise an active imagination.
![When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. - Wystan Auden quote.](/img/q/95/37595A-when-i-find-myself-in-the-company-scientists-i-feel-wystan-auden.png)
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
![When a man after long years of searching chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding. - Albert Einstein quote.](/img/q/91/38891A-when-a-man-after-long-years-searching-chances-upon-thought-einstein.png)
When a man after long years of searching chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.
![What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. - Jacques Cousteau quote.](/img/q/76/39276A-what-is-a-scientist-after-all-it-is-curious-man-jacques-cousteau.png)
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
![A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. - Madame Curie quote.](/img/q/77/39277A-a-scientist-in-his-laboratory-is-not-only-technician-he-madame-curie.png)
A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
![The limitations of our biological equipment may condemn us to the role of Peeping Toms at the keyhole of eternity. - Arthur Koestler quote.](/img/q/78/39278A-the-limitations-of-our-biological-equipment-may-condemn-us-role-arthur-koestler.png)
The limitations of our biological equipment may condemn us to the role of Peeping Toms at the keyhole of eternity.
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
![Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are port-scientists and philosopher-scientist and even a few mystics. - Peter B. Medawar quote.](/img/q/80/39280A-among-scientists-are-collectors-classifiers-and-compulsive-tidiers-up-many-peter-b-medawar.png)
Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are port-scientists and philosopher-scientist and even a few mystics.
![If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility. - Peter B. Medawar quote.](/img/q/81/39281A-if-a-scientist-were-to-cut-his-ear-off-no-peter-b-medawar.png)
If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.
![The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper. - E. O. Wilson quote.](/img/q/84/39284A-the-ideal-scientist-thinks-like-a-poet-only-later-works-e-o-wilson.png)
The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
![A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections—a mere heart of stone. - Charles Darwin quote.](/img/q/77/52077A-a-scientific-man-ought-to-have-no-wishes-no-affections-charles-darwin.png)
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections—a mere heart of stone.
![I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. - Charles Darwin quote.](/img/q/83/52083A-i-am-turned-into-a-sort-machine-observing-facts-grinding-charles-darwin.png)
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
![My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. - Charles Darwin quote.](/img/q/95/52095A-my-mind-seems-to-have-become-kind-machine-grinding-general-charles-darwin.png)
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.
Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based.
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.