Science Quote by Nick Lane

“I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy. I am…

— Alexander Humboldt

“Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one’s way in the dark.”

— Roberto Bolaño

The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other…

— John William Strutt

“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

“The scientific world of the time was in the midst of a terrible ferment, with discoveries and realizations coming at an unseemly rate. To…

— Simon Winchester

“ His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than…

— Anonymous

“the rigorously impersonal view of science might one day appear as having been a temporarily useful eccentricity rather than the definitively triumphant position which…

— William James

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

— Paul Lauterbur

“What they were after wasn't further complexification or sophistication of existing methods, but unprecedented technology. Wasn't the kind of thinkin' you get from workaday…

— Haruki Murakami

“Modern scientific culture has evolved from its roots in the ancient world and has become a complex web of many highly specialized disciplines. Gone…

— Christopher Knight & Alan Butler

“The sciences paint an impersonal and objective account of the world, deliberately devoid of "meaning", telling us about origins and mechanics of life, by…

— John Barrow