Accounts Quote by Benoit Mandelbrot

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they…

— Jacob Bronowski

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

— Henry Taube

“Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow their numerous different stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive but never certain and…

— James Lovelock

All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the…

— Hugh Nibley

Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they…

— I. Bernard Cohen

Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would…

— Norman Robert Campbell

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may…

— Joseph Rotblat

... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but…

— Lazare Carnot

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which…

— Charles Babbage

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

— Anonymous