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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.
A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.
Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character
Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.
One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.
The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.
I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.
Saying that we should stop nanoscience is tantamount to saying we should stop science.
Just because I'm a woman does not mean I have to deal with everything to do with food.
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.
Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.
You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.
Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.
Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.
On Mir, the lights kept going out because it had developed so many electrical problems.
Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.
The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.
The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.
In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.
Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.
Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.
Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!
You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that.
We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers.
The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.
A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.
An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.
A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.
When the chemist makes gloves, he usually cannot help making them in pairs for both hands.
I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.
If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.
Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.
Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.
I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.