Great Scientists Quotes

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The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked forever with its… — Max Delbruck
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. — Ursula K. Le Guin
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries. — Karl Pearson
Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead;… — Richard Hamming
Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee with Jesus Christ… — Freeman Dyson
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do… — Richard Hamming
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant… — Martin Gardner
Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found they… — Richard Hamming
Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle. — Honore de Balzac
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level — Brian Greene
Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great… — Viktor E. Frankl
All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the… — Ian Fleming
[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying… — Karl Popper

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