Scientific Men Quotes

14 quotes by 10 authors

For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry;… — Charles Sanders Peirce
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one… — H. L. Mencken
[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to… — Charles Sanders Peirce
What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the… — Justus von Liebig
We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian system that is… — Thomas Dwight
This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their… — H. L. Mencken
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of… — Frederick Soddy
All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science. — Ernest Rutherford
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much… — William Ralph Inge
[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all their wits were… — Charles Kingsley
We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental relations. Among these… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft
Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men to look askance at the patenting of… — Elihu Thomson
[The blame for the future 'plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the responsibility for the… — Frederick Soddy

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