The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a…

“The most successful scientist thinks like a poet—wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical—and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world sees.”

— Edward O. Wilson

“Of course I am not religious—I don’t in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so”

— Philip Warren Anderson

No scientist thinks in formulae.

— Albert Einstein

[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven astronauts:] The…

— Freeman Dyson

The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of…

— Max Percy

When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little…

— Willem de Kooning

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

— Edward Dahlberg

My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the…

— Michael Bloomberg

Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb…

— Thomas Berry

A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

“The demand for good bookkeepers is at an all time high as more people make the leap into self-employment each year and need competent…

— Sylvia Jaumann

At Verve, my bookkeeper would invariably say, 'Well, why do you want to put out Roy Eldridge?' Or 'Why do you want to put…

— Norman Granz

Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers,…

— Vivian Gornick

Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief season of…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you…

— Tony Evans