Assasination Quote by Daniel Immerwahr

“There is no such thing as evil in the world of science. There are only those who discover and are remembered, and those who…

— S.C. Barrus

“A thought that had been in the archives of his mind for many months came sharply into relief: of all human beings alive, the…

— Philip Wylie

“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [ the scientist ] must nevertheless remain…

— Louis de Broglie

“He alienated his friends in the sciences by thanking them extravagantly for scientific advances he had read about in the recent newspapers and magazines,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging…

— Douglas Adams

“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

“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

“The thought of just how inadequate the body's natural defenses --skull, bone, brain-- were in the face of the advanced physics-- lead, gun-powder, momentum…

— Adam Sternbergh

“Five hundred years of science have liberated humanity from the shackles of enforced ignorance.”

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because he was…

— Voltaire

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

— Roberto Bolaño

“The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open…

— H.P. Lovecraft