Commonplace Quote by Ralph Linton

In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others…

— Nathaniel Rich

... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but…

— Lazare Carnot

Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where.

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

“The progress of science has been amazingly rapid in the last decade; but consider the savants, those exhausted hens. They are certainly not “harmonious”…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

— Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in…

— James D. Watson

Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows…

— Thomas Kuhn

It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then to biology,…

— Noam Chomsky

There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher rates of…

— Noam Chomsky

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of…

— C. V. Raman

No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box…

— Thomas Kuhn

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson