Amusement Quote by Henry Adams

“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

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

— Matt Ridley

Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know…

— H. L. Mencken

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which is threatening to deprive the investigator…

— Albert Einstein The World As I See It

“Those, therefore, who effect to despise "profane" Science are themselves despicable. It is their own incapacity for true Thought of any serious kind, their…

— Aleister Crowley

Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of…

— Albert Einstein

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer…

— Colin McGinn

One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their…

— John Silber

“Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.”

— Henry Adams

“Science,’ he informed me, ‘might not yet have all the answers, but it is the only verifiable—and hence meaningful—way of asking the right questions.’…

— David Zindell