Attack Quote by David J. Anderson

No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. ... Good scientists study the most important…

— Peter Medawar

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what…

— Arthur Leonard Schawlow

“Most intellectual training focuses on analytical skills. Whether in literary criticism or scientific investigation, the academic mind is best at taking things apart. The…

— Richard J. Borden

Those who do good science do so because they choose problems that are suited to them.

— Lee Smolin

The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. An ecologist must either harden his…

— Aldo Leopold

Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just…

— Thomas Kuhn

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on…

— Aldo Leopold

Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

— Philip Emeagwali

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a…

— James D. Watson

Science progresses not because scientists as a whole are passionately open-minded but because different scientists are passionately closed-minded about different things.

— Henry H. Bauer

A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge,…

— Hilary Mason