Reputation Quote by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing”

— Konrad Lorenz

“In keeping with the methodical scientist he was, he had been jotting daily notes on his work. But underneath the entry for May 5,…

— Douglas Preston

“He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It’s just that all the science had…

— Carl Sagan

“At best he read popular science magazines like the Scientific American he had now, to keep himself up-to-date, in layman's terms, with physics generally.…

— Ian McEwan

“He alienated his friends in the sciences by thanking them extravagantly for scientific advances he had read about in the recent newspapers and magazines,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature…

— Walter Isaacson

“I think he saw his checklist as something pure—innocent as only science can be—but the humans who administered it as masses of weird prejudices…

— Jon Ronson

The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed…

— Michael Faraday

“In fact, he had always done the bare minimum of research necessary to support these myths. He was lazy, and essentially what he did…

— Douglas Adams

“He'd no time for reports. He suspected that about 95% of the written word was never read by anyone anyway.”

— Colin Dexter

“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [ the scientist ] must nevertheless remain…

— Louis de Broglie

“Reading a scientific article isn't the same as reading a detective story. We want to know from the start that the butler did it.”

— Ratnoff