Art Quote by Karl Pearson

Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the…

— Anonymous

Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real? etc. and…

— Tim Crane

Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found…

— Richard Hamming

When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what…

— Richard Hamming

The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an infinitesimal audience…

— Max Delbruck

In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both activities produce…

— Paul Davies

The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked forever with…

— Max Delbruck

Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic…

— Lewis Wolpert

[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by…

— Karl Popper

They're a lot of great scientists and their mission is to protect people. It's the Environmental Protection Agency, but it's really a people protection…

— Josh Fox

How did scientists get money in the past? They were either lucky and independently wealthy, like Darwin, or they had patrons, like Galileo. Universities…

— Stephen Jay Gould

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level

— Brian Greene