Bookkeeping Quote by Anonymous

a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and excitement when…

— Vivian Gornick

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

— E. O. Wilson

“The most successful scientist thinks like a poet—wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical—and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world sees.”

— Edward O. Wilson

“[L]et us not overlook the further great fact, that not only does science underlie sculpture, painting, music, poetry, but that science is itself poetic.…

— Herbert Spencer

“Science is a system of rational thought devised to investigate the world and establish the laws by which it operates. The scientist uses those…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Just as the dignity of man is based on his freedom--to the extent that he may even say no to God--likewise, the dignity of…

— Viktor Frankl

“What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage. Nothing will…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Someone who believes everything he is told simply can't be a scientist, but someone who believes nothing will wind up in jail or prematurely…

— Luis Alvarez

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it.…

— George Wald

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.

— Marcello Truzzi