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It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most… — Unknown Author
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident… — Ernest Lawrence
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's… — L. Sprague de Camp
[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack
All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why alkaptonuric individuals pass… — Archibald Garrod
I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits… — Fiorello H. La Guardia
The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative in… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the truth all at… — Torbern Bergman
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
There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was… — Unknown Author
In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can be compared to… — Unknown Author
In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and… — Alexander Fleming
Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits,… — Unknown Author
Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well… — Unknown Author
The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil… — Gerald Holton
Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius
Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time. — Cy Twombly
If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
I am a little discouraged and irritated at the welfare recipient families growing in size all the time. Those of us who work and pay… — Unknown Author

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