Science Quote by Douglas Preston

“The serious scientific public trusted him implicitly and consequently had no need to read him. If those people were to start getting critical, no…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“But on night duty, alone, he had to face the self he had been afraid to uncover, and he was homesick for the laboratory,…

— Sinclair Lewis

“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

“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

“I think he saw his checklist as something pure—innocent as only science can be—but the humans who administered it as masses of weird prejudices…

— Jon Ronson

“At best he read popular science magazines like the Scientific American he had now, to keep himself up-to-date, in layman's terms, with physics generally.…

— Ian McEwan

“Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing”

— Konrad Lorenz

“Even in his greatest dedication to science he had never managed to forget that people's goodness and beauty come from what they believe, not…

— Robert Musil

“A great physicist taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He published many important books and papers. Often he had an idea in the…

— Annie Dillard

“He was a scholar, so goddamned intelligent he couldn’t see the writing on the wall. He wanted answers to life’s tragedies when their very…

— Skye Warren