Achievement Quote by George Sarton

I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable…

— Anonymous

Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now see scientific…

— Charles Lindbergh

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking,…

— Jim Al-Khalili

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual…

— Derek Barton

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

— Charles H. Townes

The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life…

— Barry Commoner

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

— Willard Libby

We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast…

— Jared Diamond

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret…

— Max Heindel

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of…

— Peter Agre

“It is a fact of life that oversimplified accounts of the development of science are often necessary in its teaching. Most scientific progress is…

— Jim Al-Khalili