Importance Quote by Mary Somerville

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

— Ernest Rutherford

... 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

“None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

— Martin H. Fischer

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

— William James

That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother [Marie Curie] has told…

— Irene Joliot-Curie

“She who believes that science will inescapably solve humanity’s oldest problems and radically change the human lot in this world is the one who…

— Giannis Delimitsos

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in…

— Max Planck

No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.

— Kim Edwards

The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises…

— Alexander Herzen