Scientific Work Quotes

32 quotes by 22 authors

Using any reasonable definition of a scientist, we can say that 80 to 90 percent of all the scientists that have ever lived are alive… — Derek J. de Solla Price
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about… — Werner Heisenberg
During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete.… — Max Born
Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and… — Wernher von Braun
It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet. — Wilder Penfield
There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and… — Gilbert N. Lewis
The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert. — Gottlob Frege
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings. — Albert Einstein
All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge.… — Austin Bradford Hill
I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work. — Albert Einstein
Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available. — Albert Einstein
The year that Rutherford died (1938 [sic]) there disappeared forever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in our youth.… — Pyotr Kapitsa
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it — David Hilbert
Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of… — Louis Pasteur
I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; but if I had to… — Jean-Baptiste Dumas
It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a… — Marie Curie
Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology… — Stephen Jay Gould
Unfortunately, there is something of a flaw in this idealized picture of the way the scientific community discovers truth. And the flaw is that most… — James Surowiecki
Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, whatever it may… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time… — John L. Phillips

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