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In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio emission from the… — Martin Ryle
In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick at solutions and… — Proclus
It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for… — Francis Galton
It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good… — Gertrude B. Elion
Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when they are at… — Max Wertheimer
Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when… — Karl Pearson
More and more of out colleagues fail to understand our work because of the high specialization of research problems. We must not be discouraged if… — Theobald Smith
No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any… — John B. Jervis
No organization engaged in any specific field of work ever invents any important developers in that field, or adopts any important development in that field… — Reginald Fessenden
No research will answer all queries that the future may raise. It is wiser to praise the work for what it has accomplished and then… — Theobald Smith
One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept… — Seymour Cray
Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top… — Richard Hamming
Rejoice when other scientists do not believe what you know to be true. It will give you extra time to work on it in peace.… — Efraim Racker
That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother [Marie Curie] has told us… — Irene Joliot-Curie
The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable… — James Prescott Joule
The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again… — William Beebe
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
The trouble is that all the investigators proceeded in exactly the same spirit, the spirit that is of scientific curiosity, and with no possibility of… — Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh
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
You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers… — Anthony F. C. Wallace

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