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
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise. — Edward Weston 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
I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's… — Mitchell A. Wilson Copy Share Image
We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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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
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 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
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
“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
When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to… — Ben Stein 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
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
Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries… — John Polkinghorne 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
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
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