Difficult Quote by Paul Nurse

Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found…

— Richard Hamming

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries…

— Stephen Hawking

From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might…

— Victor Francis Hess

As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were…

— J. Allen Hynek

“Science itself caused half the problems it was trying to solve. "Progress" was Mother Earth's ultimate malignancy.”

— Dan Brown

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of…

— Richard P. Feynman

“The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.”

— Carl Sagan

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

— Ernest Lawrence

In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the…

— E. O. Wilson

“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer.”

— David Sedaris

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have…

— Anonymous