The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Samuel Johnson
Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
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Frank Herbert
Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?
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Carl Sagan
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
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Marston Bates
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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Steven Weinberg
More Quotes By Frederick Sanger
A DNA sequence for the genome of bacteriophage ΦX174 of approximately 5, 375 nucleotides has been determined using the rapid and simple 'plus and minus' method. The sequence identifies many of the features responsible for the production of the proteins of the nine known genes...
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature...
