“Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am not religious in any sense; in fact, I consider myself an atheist.” — Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
“Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.” — John Archibald Wheeler 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
[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
“I wish I had my beta-blockers handy. [ Comment when told that he had won a Nobel prize, referring to the drug… — Anonymous 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 zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same… — Alan Hodgkin Copy Share Image
“As is known worldwide, Japan has tried to catch up with the western countries since the beginning of this century by importing… — Kenichi Fukui 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
“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
“..the planet is just too small for these developing countries to repeat the economic growth in the same way that the rich… — Mario Molina Copy Share Image
“After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
“Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and… — Henry Hallett Dale 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
“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
“Hitherto the conception of chemical transmission at nerve endings and neuronal synapses, originating in Loewi's discovery, and with the extension that the… — Henry Hallett Dale Copy Share Image
I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I would not be among you to-night (being awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) but for the mentors, colleagues… — Konrad Bloch Copy Share Image
“Lastly, and doubtless always, but particularly at the end of the last century, certain scholars considered that since the appearances on our… — Jean Baptiste Perrin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most impressive illustration of all is to suppose that you could label the molecules in a tumbler of water. ...… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
“[ Biographical info on Rita ] Born and raised in a Sephardic Jewish family in which culture and love of learning were… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
“Die Wissenschaft ist ein Land, welches die Eigenschaft hat, um so mehr Menschen beherbergen zu können, je mehr Bewohner sich darin sammeln;… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
“[Concerning] phosphorescent bodies, and in particular to uranium salts whose phosphorescence has a very brief duration. With the double sulfate of uranium… — Antoine Henri Becquerel Copy Share Image
“The velocity of light is one of the most important of the fundamental constants of Nature. Its measurement by Foucault and Fizeau… — A.A. Michelson Copy Share Image
“If we ascribe the ejection of the proton to a Compton recoil from a quantum of 52 x 106 electron volts, then… — James Chadwick Copy Share Image
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“The discovery of an interaction among the four hemes made it obvious that they must be touching, but in science what is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“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
“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 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
![“[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.” quote by Harold Urey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/892/harold-urey-42546_alien-life_my-study-of-the-universe-leaves-little-d_2736196.jpg)
![“I wish I had my beta-blockers handy. [ Comment when told that he had won a Nobel prize, referring to the drug he discovered for the treatment of heart disease .]” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f6/anonymous-1_beta-blockers_i-wish-i-had-my-beta-blockers-handy-comm_2565885.jpg)
![“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/i/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/i/087/luis-federico-leloir-77725_chemistry_i-might-paraphrase-churchill-and-say-nev_1706089.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/i/19c/james-d-watson-4724_atheism_when-asked-by-a-student-if-he-believes-i_1394454.png)
![“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/i/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/i/3a4/otto-hahn-55355_chemistry_as-chemists-we-must-rename-our-scheme-an_1668415.jpg)
![“[ Biographical info on Rita ] Born and raised in a Sephardic Jewish family in which culture and love of learning were categorical imperatives, she abandoned religion and embraced atheism. She devoted herself to Science, getting to the point of renouncing marriage for scientific research. ...Unlike…” quote by Rita Levi-Montalcini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34f/rita-levi-montalcini-22012_atheism_biographical-info-on-rita-born-and-raise_2439560.jpg)
![“[Concerning] phosphorescent bodies, and in particular to uranium salts whose phosphorescence has a very brief duration. With the double sulfate of uranium and potassium ... I was able to perform the following experiment: One wraps a Lumière photographic plate with a bromide emulsion in two sheets…” quote by Antoine Henri Becquerel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/antoine-henri-becquerel-162357_discovery-of-radioac_concerning-phosphorescent-bodies-and-in_633685.jpg)
