“I am not religious in any sense; in fact, I consider myself an atheist.” — Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
“Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.” — Arthur Kornberg Copy Share Image
“Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to… — Edgar Douglas Adrian Copy Share Image
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much. — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
“Raised in a completely nonreligious family, Joliot never attended any church and was a thoroughgoing atheist all his life.” — Francis Perrin Copy Share Image
“I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.” — Howard Florey Copy Share Image
“I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I… — Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
“It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible. [Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]” — William Shockley Copy Share Image
“The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same… — Alan Hodgkin Copy Share Image
“It cannot, of course, be stated with absolute certainty that no elements can combine with argon; but it appears at least improbable… — William Ramsay Copy Share Image
“One can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key… — John H. Van Vleck Copy Share Image
“It is because I know all that science can bring to the world that I shall continue my efforts to ensure that… — Frédéric Joliot-Curie Copy Share Image
“As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
“That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life—this our mother has told… — Irène Joliot-Curie Copy Share Image
“This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry. { Comment on… — Adolf Von Baeyer Copy Share Image
“ Svante Arrhenius , recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1903), was a declared atheist and the author of The Evolution… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
“Once a molecule is asymmetric, its extension proceeds also in an asymmetrical sense. This concept completely eliminates the difference between natural and… — Emil Fischer Copy Share Image
“I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
“I came into the room, which was half dark, and presently spotted Lord Kelvin in the audience and realised that I was… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
“From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science… — David Gross Copy Share Image
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
“It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly international in scope. Any particular advance has… — John Bardeen Copy Share Image
“It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry—which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books—that the twenty amino acids… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more powerful radio… — Martin Ryle Copy Share Image
“Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilárd , which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I realized that more and more I was saying, 'It seems to me that we have come to the time war ought… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“The generalized theory of relativity has furnished still more remarkable results. This considers not only uniform but also accelerated motion. In particular,… — A.A. Michelson Copy Share Image
“We may regard the cell quite apart from its familiar morphological aspects, and contemplate its constitution from the purely chemical standpoint. We… — Paul Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that… — Albert Abraham Michelson Copy Share Image
“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
“It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end is… — Dennis Gabor Copy Share Image
“I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little. [Exemplifying humility, upon accepting the Nobel Prize… — Luis Federico Leloir Copy Share Image
“When [Niels] Bohr is about everything is somehow different. Even the dullest gets a fit of brilliancy.” — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
“As is known worldwide, Japan has tried to catch up with the western countries since the beginning of this century by importing… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
![“It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible. [Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]” quote by William Shockley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/17b/william-shockley-50854_amplifier_it-has-today-occurred-to-me-that-an-ampl_2432064.jpg)
![“This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry. { Comment on German scientist Eduard Buchner who later ironically won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery }” quote by Adolf Von Baeyer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e5f/adolf-von-baeyer-98274_chemistry_this-discovery-of-a-cell-free-yeast-extr_1940603.jpg)
![“I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known [the nuclear bomb] ... I thought maybe my discovery might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon signs…” quote by Harold Urey](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2b4/harold-urey-42546_chemistry_i-looked-for-it-heavy-hydrogen-deuterium_2368902.jpg)
![“Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction, but the remotest possibility must always be considered that the energy once…” quote by Francis William Aston](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4ff/francis-william-aston-44310_atom_should-the-research-worker-of-the-future_1221591.png)
![“I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little. [Exemplifying humility, upon accepting the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.]” quote by Luis Federico Leloir](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/087/luis-federico-leloir-77725_chemistry_i-might-paraphrase-churchill-and-say-nev_1706089.jpg)
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