Facts Quote by Isaac Asimov

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in…

— Max Planck

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

— Johann Gustav Droysen

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of…

— Robert Barany

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries…

— Stephen Hawking

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.

— Lord Dunsany

I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences,…

— Ian Hacking

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them…

— James Bryant Conant

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

— Karl Popper

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our…

— Sydney Brenner

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

— Wilbur Wright

Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.

— Daniel Dennett