Accepting Quote by Matthew Zapruder

“What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage. Nothing will…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Journalists often ask me when I go to the field, 'What do you expect to find?' And my answer always is, 'The unexpected,' because…

— Donald Johanson

“We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the…

— Maria Montessori

I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of…

— J. G. Ballard

“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

“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

“When he had first started at the center, he had liked to think that he was unexpectedly cool-looking for such a job. Now he…

— China Miéville

“Scientists are like children: They always want to know everything, they all ask too many questions, and they never follow orders to the letter.”

— Sylvain Neuvel

“They know a million tricks, those novelists. Take Doctor Goebbels; that's how he started out, writing fiction. Appeals to the base lusts that hide…

— Philip K. Dick

“I expect to be awarded the Nobel prize for researching what professional astronomers did not want researched.”

— Steven Magee

It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that…

— Peter Medawar

“The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses…

— Israel Zangwill