You could have been a great scientist or something. Or a…

a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and excitement when…

— Vivian Gornick

“The scientist in me worries that my happiness is nothing more than a symptom of bipolar disease, hypergraphia from a postpartum disorder. The rest…

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge…

— John Steinbeck

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens…

— Loren Eiseley

Louis Pasteur, the great scientist, said "chance favours the prepared mind", which is a posh way of saying 'do your homework', but it's an…

— Al Murray

Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.

— Joss Whedon

All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers,…

— Ian Fleming

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level

— Brian Greene

Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the…

— Anonymous

We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

— Loren Eiseley

When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a…

— Lewis Wolpert

Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real? etc. and…

— Tim Crane

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

— Albert Einstein