Aim Quote by Nikola Tesla

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His…

— Nikola Tesla

It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application…

— Louis Agassiz

Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a…

— Albert Einstein

[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less valuable, on…

— James Clerk Maxwell

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

— Samuel Johnson

But ... the working scientist ... is not consciously following any prescribed course of action, but feels complete freedom to utilize any method or…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we…

— Claude Bernard

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

— Isaac Asimov

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems…

— Jacques Monod

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is…

— Charlie Chaplin