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[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile. — Edward Teller
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by… — Hans Zinsser
According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to… — Gottfried Leibniz
God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all… — Seneca the Younger
If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and… — Johannes Kepler
One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were,… — Louis Agassiz
The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and… — Wolfgang Ostwald
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
A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give. — Paul Dirac
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied… — Louis Agassiz
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the… — Benjamin Disraeli
Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train… — Irving Langmuir
All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself alone,… — Roger Bacon
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth. — Edgar Allan Poe
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
In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have… — James Bryant Conant
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which… — Albert Einstein
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova,… — Michio Kaku
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the… — Paul Dirac
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by… — Martin Gardner
The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till… — Francis Darwin
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except… — Charles Darwin
Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of this… — Wilhelm Wundt
To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work... I've found that a minimum of 90 minutes is… — Steve Pavlina

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