Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Louis Pasteur, the great scientist, said "chance favours the prepared mind", which is a posh way of saying 'do your homework', but… — Al Murray Copy Share Image
One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
How did scientists get money in the past? They were either lucky and independently wealthy, like Darwin, or they had patrons, like… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
They're a lot of great scientists and their mission is to protect people. It's the Environmental Protection Agency, but it's really a… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will,… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
“I've never believed that they're separate. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist. Michelangelo knew a tremendous amount… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Such a great scientist, as Albert Einstein was, he could not prevent use of atomic weapons against the people, though he made… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
When Arthur Ashe plays tennis, his purpose each day is to play the game in a way he has never played it… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
“The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.” — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies. — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image