Inspiration Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the…

— Maria Montessori

“He thought to himself how, in some future time, when these formidable scientific inventions would have changed the face of the earth, some wayward…

— John Cowper Powy's i Wolf Solent i

“In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident…

— Anonymous

“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

“The most successful scientist thinks like a poet—wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical—and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world sees.”

— Edward O. Wilson

“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

“Unlike him I had been unable to escape into the simple complexities of science. All he had to do was solve the mystery of…

— Walker Percy

“We live in a world that operates according to a few general laws of nature. Everything you do from the moment you get up…

— Robert M. Hazen

“Quite simply, the Count’s father had believed that while a man should attend closely to life, he should not attend too closely to the…

— Amor Towles

“Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him off to sleep again.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage. Nothing will…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The charlatan is always the pioneer. From the astrologer came the astronomer, from the alchemist the chemist, from the mesmerist the experimental psychologist. The…

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle