“During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a source of knowledge and… — Sydney Brenner 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
“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
Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles… — Julian Schwinger Copy Share Image
“In describing a protein it is now common to distinguish the primary, secondary and tertiary structures. The primary structure is simply the… — John Kendrew 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“When [Niels] Bohr is about everything is somehow different. Even the dullest gets a fit of brilliancy.” — Isidor Isaac Rabi 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
“As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
