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“nanoscope, the young lab technician could easily study particles as small as one nanometer in diameter – the equivalent of one billionth”

— Nick Stephenson

When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics…

— Max Planck

I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had…

— Jim Benton

“It will reward enough for me if, by the publication of the present experiment, I have directed the attention of investigators to this subject,…

— Joseph Von Fraunhofer

“When I became aware of the extensive health and safety issues in professional astronomy, I was legally required to alert the unsuspecting workers of…

— Steven Magee

“The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution.”

— Richard J. Borden

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

It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in nature. The…

— Martin Rees

“It is possible that a man who was mentally and physically sickened by professional astronomers may end up being one of the world’s greatest…

— Steven Magee

“In a nice little house in Atro City there lived a man called Doktor Gleichstein. He was a kind of scientist, and he was…

— Christina Engela

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

— George Wald

“Two minutes worth of signal analysis told me all I needed to know. This station "talks" to the dark matter universe about what goes…

— Howard Tayler