Scientist Quotes

“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 universe ?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“The perfect being, huh? There is no such thing as perfect in this world. That may sound cliché, but it’s the truth. The average person admires perfection and seeks to obtain it. But, what’s the point of achieving perfection? There is none. Nothing. Not a single thing. I loathe perfection! If something is perfect, then there is nothing left. There is no room for imagination. No place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities. Do you know what that means? For scientists such as ourselves, perfection only brings despair. It is our job to create things more wonderful than anything before them, but never to obtain perfection. A scientist must be a person who finds ecstasy while suffering from that antimony. In short, the moment that foolishness left your mouth and reached my ears, you had already lost. Of course, that’s assuming you are a scientist”
― Tite Kubo

“Be patient with him. If the same quality did not exist in you, you wouldn’t notice it in him.”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“Right? I don’t know why I did it. Temporary insanity, maybe. Did you ever do something that makes absolutely no sense, but you couldn’t help yourself?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.”
― Leo Szilard

“Be brave. Be free from philosophies, prophets and holy lies. Go deep into your feelings and explore the mystery of your body, mind and soul. You will find the truth.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; mais une accumulation de faits n'est pas plus une science qu'un tas de pierres n'est une maison.

The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”
― Henri Poincare, Science and Hypothesis

“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.”
― Nikola Tesla, Problem of Increasing Human Energy

“I have studied these things - you have not.”
― Isaac Newton

“All of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in travel we attain them all. Then we have our day of glory, when all our dreams come true, when we can be anything we like, as long as we like, and, when we are tired of it, pull up stakes and move on. Travel -- the solitude of the mountains, the emptiness of the desert, the delicacy of the minaret; eternal change, limitless contrast, unending variety.' (Eric Lang)”
― Robert Edison Fulton Jr., One Man Caravan

“A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.”
― Oliver Butterworth, The Enormous Egg

“Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, 'Arise, Sir: it is near seven o'clock and you have great work to do today.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [the scientist] must nevertheless remain sincere and modest, if only because his studies constantly bring home to him that, compared with the gigantic aims of science, his own contribution, no matter how important, is only a drop in the ocean of truth.”
― Louis de Broglie, Nouvelles perspectives en microphysique

“Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Love permeates all things and laws.
Scientists should research it more.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.”
― Harmony Korine

“The intention (of an artist) is (the same as a scientist)...to discover and reveal what is unsuspected but significant in life.”
― H W Leggett

“His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.

{Gibbs's obituary for scientist Rudolf Clausius}”
― Josiah Willard Gibbs

“I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“A scientist studies what is, whereas an engineer creates what never was.”
― Theodore von Karman

“Albert Einstein would have been funnier had he been photographed wearing a tee-shirt that said ‘Porn Star’!”
― Steven Magee

“In poetry I am sufi,
In philosophy I am advaitin.
In duty I am scientist,
In existence I am human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Curiosity is the lifeblood of science, not constant boasting of lifeless facts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Curiosity is the lifeblood of science.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“To World Scientist CORRUGATION brings INNOVATION, INNOVATION brings RENOVATION.”
― Wisdom Ogbe

“元首們走下真理祭壇，來到那些科學家面前，進行最後的努力。
法國總統說：「能不能這樣：把這事稍往後放一放，讓我陪大家去體驗另一種生活，讓我們放鬆自己，在黄昏的鳥鳴中看着夜幕降臨大地，在銀色的月光下聽着懷舊的音樂，喝着美酒想着你心愛的人⋯⋯這時你們就會發現，終極真理並不像你們想的那麼重要，與你們追求的虛無飄渺的宇宙和諧之美相比，這樣的美更讓人陶醉。」
一位物理學家冷冷地說：「所有的生活都是合理的，我們沒必要互相理解。」
法國元首還想說甚麼，美國總統已失去了耐心：「好了，不要對牛彈琴了！您還看不出來這是怎樣一群毫無責任心的人？還看不出這是怎樣一群騙子？他們聲稱為全人類的利益而研究，其實只是拿社會的財富滿足自己的慾望，滿足他們對那種玄虛的宇宙和諧美的變態慾望，這和拿公款嫖娼有甚麼區别？！」
丁儀擠上前來拍拍他的肩膀笑着說：「總統先生，科學發展到今天，終於有人對它的本質進行了比較準確的定義。
旁邊的松田誠一說：「我們早就承認這點，並反覆聲明，但一直沒人相信我們。」”
― Liu Cixin, 朝闻道

“Painless poet cannot be,
Doubtless scientist cannot be.
Darkless dawn cannot be,
Errorless existence cannot be.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Science and knowledge are two different things - knowledge is a celebration of facts, science is a celebration of life using facts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, L'humain Impossible: Cent Sonnets pour Ma Famille Mondiale

“My science is not rooted in cold logic venture, my science is rooted in human welfare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets