“I am not religious in any sense; in fact, I consider myself an atheist.” — Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar 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
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
“When [Niels] Bohr is about everything is somehow different. Even the dullest gets a fit of brilliancy.” — Isidor Isaac Rabi 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
“The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.” — Frank Wilczek 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 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
“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
“ 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
“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
“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
“Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
“As chemists, we must rename [our] scheme and insert the symbols Ba, La, Ce in place of Ra, Ac, Th. As nuclear… — Otto Hahn 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
“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
“There is no sharp boundary line separating the reactions of the immune bodies from chemical processes between crystalloids, just as in nature… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
“A recognized fact which goes back to the earliest times is that every living organism is not the sum of a multitude… — Walter Hess 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
“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to… — Albert Einstein 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
“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
“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
“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
“The most striking impression was that of an overwhelming bright light. I had seen under similar conditions the explosion of a large… — Emilio Segrè Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
“[ When asked by a student if he believes in any gods ] Oh, no. Absolutely not... The biggest advantage to believing… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which… — Melvin Schwartz Copy Share Image
“One's instinct is at first to try and get rid of a discrepancy, but I believe that experience shows such an endeavour… — John William Strutt Copy Share Image
“The history of the knowledge of the phenomena of life and of the organized world can be divided into two main periods.… — Paul Ehrlich Copy Share Image
![“When [Niels] Bohr is about everything is somehow different. Even the dullest gets a fit of brilliancy.” quote by Isidor Isaac Rabi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/382/isidor-isaac-rabi-26285_bohr_when-niels-bohr-is-about-everything-is-s_2010182.jpg)
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/087/luis-federico-leloir-77725_chemistry_i-might-paraphrase-churchill-and-say-nev_1706089.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/quotes/img-quotes/e5f/adolf-von-baeyer-98274_chemistry_this-discovery-of-a-cell-free-yeast-extr_1940603.jpg)
![“Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth. [ Stating how planets supporting life cannot be rare .]” quote by Harold Urey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e67/harold-urey-42546_astrobiology_life-is-not-a-miracle-it-is-a-natural-ph_794791.jpg)
![“As chemists, we must rename [our] scheme and insert the symbols Ba, La, Ce in place of Ra, Ac, Th. As nuclear chemists closely associated with physics, we cannot yet convince ourselves to make this leap, which contradicts all previous experience in nuclear physics.” quote by Otto Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3a4/otto-hahn-55355_chemistry_as-chemists-we-must-rename-our-scheme-an_1668415.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/quotes/img-quotes/4ff/francis-william-aston-44310_atom_should-the-research-worker-of-the-future_1221591.jpg)
![“[ When asked by a student if he believes in any gods ] Oh, no. Absolutely not... The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.” quote by James D. Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/19c/james-d-watson-4724_atheism_when-asked-by-a-student-if-he-believes-i_1394454.jpg)
