Demand Quote by John Charles Polanyi

Every scientist dreams of doing something that can help the world.

— Tu Youyou

Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

— Michael Crichton

Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.

— John A. McDougall

Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

— A. S. Byatt

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

— Jack Horner

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man…

— Glenn T. Seaborg

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them.…

— Stephen Fry

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand…

— Anonymous

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.

— George Trumbull Ladd

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.

— Marcello Truzzi