Accounts Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays…

— Karl Kraus

If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over…

— Francis Bacon

“Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which is threatening to deprive the investigator…

— Albert Einstein The World As I See It

The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on…

— Peter D. Mitchell

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to…

— Mark Twain

To the extent that the scientist's capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by government or…

— Lewis Mumford

“The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work that precedes…

— Santiago Ramón y Cajal

“As a modern man, Ziegler had an infinite respect not only for money but also for that other powerful force – science. Yet he…

— Hermann Hesse

“By and large, people who choose to go into science are not greatly interested in psychological problems... He liked the exactness of science, and…

— Brenda Maddox

“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

“There are many things in science that were developed because it was possible rather than desirable. Humanity's curiosity will almost certainly be its downfall.”

— Tony Moyle

“He was not interested in detached knowledge, science for science's sake: there was no use learning anything if it was of no use. Relevance…

— Ursula K. Le Guin