Consistent Quote by Anonymous

“What a wonderful stimulant it would be for the beginner if his instructor, instead of amazing and dismaying him with the sublimity of great…

— Santiago Ramón y Cajal

For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair…

— David Hume

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

— Scott Berkun

One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their…

— John Silber

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that…

— Marvin Minsky

“Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears open ... Trace difficulties.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature,"…

— Thomas Huxley

The scientist … must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should be able…

— Hermann Bondi

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the…

— Claude Bernard

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

— Humphry Davy

“A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.”

— Oliver Butterworth

“Science has always said that it may not know everything now but it will know, eventually. But now we see that isn’t true. It…

— Michael Crichton