Capacity Quote by Lewis Mumford

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for…

— Karl Popper

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to…

— Mark Twain

Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part…

— Robert K. Merton

And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

— Tycho Brahe

“The true worth of a researcher lies in pursuing what he did not seek in his experiment as well as what he sought.”

— Claude Bernard

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

— Luther Burbank

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial…

— Johnny Ball

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we…

— Claude Bernard

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the…

— Melvin Calvin

The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the…

— Paul Johnson

“Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire.”

— Carl Sagan