Kindness Quote by Mark Twain

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. There is no feeling…

— Mark Twain

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

— Mark Twain

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult…

— Peter D. Mitchell

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.

— Mark Twain

Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

— Isaac Asimov

“Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations.…

— Gary Taubes

... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he…

— Ronald Fisher

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately…

— Francis Crick

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they…

— Marie Curie

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

— Hans Eysenck

“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