Book Quote by Evariste Galois

I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made me feel…

— Simon Jenkins

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

— Saul Bellow

No matter what I've published - and you can look it up, I've published quite a lot in science, quite a few books too…

— Robert Winston

There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any…

— Samuel Johnson

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

— Thomas Huxley

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be…

— Moliere

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those…

— Jack W. Szostak

If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.

— Edsger Dijkstra