Mere Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

— Isaac Asimov

It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application…

— Louis Agassiz

“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

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

— Jane Jacobs

the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority…

— Albert Einstein

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical…

— John William Draper

“Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the…

— Albert Einstein

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

— Stephen Hawking

But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.

— Henrik Ibsen

“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

I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those…

— Charles Lindbergh

“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for…

— Percy Williams Bridgman