Quote by Daniel Gilbert

“truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.’ ” “More Oscar Wilde?” “Galileo, the father of modern…

— Kami Garcia

“He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It’s just that all the science had…

— Carl Sagan

“Galileo’s genius resided not in his ability to understand the universe, but in his capacity to surrender that need to know so he could…

— David B. Agus

“Scientists are like children: They always want to know everything, they all ask too many questions, and they never follow orders to the letter.”

— Sylvain Neuvel

“When he had first started at the center, he had liked to think that he was unexpectedly cool-looking for such a job. Now he…

— China Miéville

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the…

— Ben Hecht

“Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one’s way in the dark.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.”

— Walker Percy

“In these days, when there is a tendency to specialize so closely, it is well for us to be reminded that the possibilities of…

— Jimmy Soni

“You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills.” Andrew”

— Jody Swarbrick

“Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. But it takes perspective to know who's carrying the…

— Jack McDevitt

Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses…

— Mark Frauenfelder