Discovery Quote by William S. Burroughs

The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental.…

— Brian Greene

Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.

— Johann Philipp Reis

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

— Edmund Husserl

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

— David Eagleman

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted…

— Frederick Soddy

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

— Martin Gardner

Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and…

— James Patterson

The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not…

— Anthony Standen

The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

— Justus von Liebig

... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply be messy…

— David Papineau

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I…

— Philip Pullman