Approach Quote by Kenichi Fukui

This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the…

— Kenichi Fukui

I study orbital dynamics as a hobby. My idea of a good time is sitting down and drawing on that knowledge to imagine a…

— Andy Weir

The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of Euclid, Apollonius…

— Dominic Cummings

The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member…

— James R Newman

I fundamentally believed in the NASA mission of advancing our space frontier, all the while developing innovations and new technologies that would benefit all…

— Jonny Kim

I'm a very amateur scientist. For me, it started with the Mercury space program and onward to the moon landing in my impressionable adolescent…

— Geoffrey Rush

I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

— Imre Lakatos

I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize…

— Nancy Roman

[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man;…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.

— Cornelius Lanczos

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

— Edgar Mitchell