I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst...
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Isaac Newton
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
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Evelyn Fox Keller
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
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Unknown
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
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Alice James
If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything.
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George Head
More Quotes By Roger Babson
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.
The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of deducing by pure reasoning from speculative assumptions.
I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest–and scientists have to be–we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination. It is...
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.
