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
“The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.” — Amit Kalantri 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
[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
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
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
Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real?… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists,… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies… — Jean Rostand 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
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
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
Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an… — Max Delbruck 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
Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David… — Robert Breault 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
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
We affirm the neutrality of Science ... Science is of no country. ... But if Science has no country, the scientist must… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
This is the most important joke I've ever heard. Niels Bohr, the founder of Quantum Physics, had a friend to dinner. As… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
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![“Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists…” quote by Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/488/stephen-jay-gould-885_biology_each-worldview-was-a-cultural-product-bu_305934.jpg)
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![“[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 public saw with their own eyes how science is done, how a great scientist thinks with his hands, how nature gives a clear answer when a…” quote by Freeman Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1a7/freeman-dyson-1435_answers_on-richard-p-feynman-s-live-demonstratio_635893.jpg)
