Life Quote by Walker Percy

“All he had to do was solve the mystery of the universe, which may be difficult but is not as difficult as living an…

— Walker Percy

“He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It’s just that all the science had…

— Carl Sagan

“People had no sense of history, they learned about chemistry and biology and astronomy and thought that these matters had always been the proper…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Isn’t that what it means to be a scientist? To push the boundaries of the unknown? To bravely, actively explore the enormity of our…

— Robyn Mundell

“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

“When he had first started at the center, he had liked to think that he was unexpectedly cool-looking for such a job. Now he…

— China Miéville

“His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature…

— Walter Isaacson

“But, could he truly call himself a scientist if he were to pass up such a unique opportunity?”

— Christa Faust

“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

“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

“He’d have been a little bit happier if there’d been a demon or some sort of magic. Something simple and understandable. He didn’t like…

— Terry Pratchett

“There had always been a conflict in me between mystery and meaning. I had pursued tha latter, worshipped the latter as a doctor. As…

— John Fowles The Magus