Discipline Quote by W. Scott Poole

“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by the decay…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

The finest imagination in the world could not have conceived of a better idea than the philosophers' stone to inspire the minds and faculties…

— Justus von Liebig

When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been…

— Louis Agassiz

“We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the…

— Maria Montessori

It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a…

— Honore de Balzac

Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry…

— Claude Bernard

It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery…

— Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

“These researches renewed his commitment to analysis, which he now conceived more as a means to produce personal growth than as a technique for…

— Anthony Stevens

Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The scientific world of the time was in the midst of a terrible ferment, with discoveries and realizations coming at an unseemly rate. To…

— Simon Winchester

“But on night duty, alone, he had to face the self he had been afraid to uncover, and he was homesick for the laboratory,…

— Sinclair Lewis

“In the popular folklore of American history, there is a sense in which the founders’ various achievements in natural philosophy—Franklin’s electrical experiments, Jefferson’s botany—serve…

— Steven Johnson