Brilliance Quote by Carl Sagan

“ Goddard was not personally religious; his most immediate and consistent motivation was a desire for recognition as the founding genius of rocket science.”

— Kendrick Oliver

“A great physicist taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He published many important books and papers. Often he had an idea in the…

— Annie Dillard

I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever…

— Mary Roach

“It is a fact of life that oversimplified accounts of the development of science are often necessary in its teaching. Most scientific progress is…

— Jim Al-Khalili

The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also…

— Albert Einstein

“He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It’s just that all the science had…

— Carl Sagan

“He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data. The theories that resulted…

— Walter Isaacson

It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery…

— Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

The neatest thing about research and science is we don't necessarily know what's going to come down the pike. We think we know what…

— Leroy Chiao

I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make…

— Jack W. Szostak

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather…

— Denton Cooley