We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.
Arne TiseliusStichwörter: science truth error world language manipulation superstition facts exploitation false nobel-laureate critical-thinking pollution biochemistry blurred biochemist manipulation-of-facts uncritical-minds
The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life.
Hermann Franz Moritz KoppStichwörter: science life experience purpose history meaning-of-life meaning effort views purpose-of-life historian alchemy scientist vain alchemists elixir elixir-of-life life-extension
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
Jean RostandStichwörter: science time admiration achievement praise scientist louis-pasteur inconceivable
It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.
Karl WeierstrassStichwörter: science poetry poet perfection mathematician father-of-modern-analysis
This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.
{Comment on German scientist Eduard Buchner who later ironically won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery}
Stichwörter: humor science talent funny discovery famous chemistry nobel-laureate scientist indigo buchner cell-free-yeast-extract eduard-buchner synthesized-indigo
I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.
Robert S. MullikenStichwörter: humor science life purpose meaning-of-life courage funny meaning suicide rationality hedonism interesting study purpose-of-life nobel-laureate scientist molecular-orbital-theory scientific-hedonism study-of-science
While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of the past, it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice.
Robert S. MullikenStichwörter: science save principles probability nobel-laureate advance application marvels affirm physical-science rigorous scientific-marvels
The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither finish nor beauty to the results. In truth, in truism if the reader please, Laplace was neither Lagrange nor Euler, as every student is made to feel. The second is power and symmetry, the third power and simplicity; the first is power without either symmetry or simplicity. But, nevertheless, Laplace never attempted investigation of a subject without leaving upon it the marks of difficulties conquered: sometimes clumsily, sometimes indirectly, always without minuteness of design or arrangement of detail; but still, his end is obtained and the difficulty is conquered.
Augustus de MorganStichwörter: science truth power beauty genius admiration investigation difficulty simplicity scientists praise design obstacles results mathematics symmetry detail instrument conquer clumsy indirect lagrange laplace pierre-simon-laplace euler leonhard-euler joseph-louis-lagrange
The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.
Augustus de MorganStichwörter: science history admiration expectation praise astronomy recognition attention labour accurate incomplete nineteenth-century chief astronomical-society baily founder francis-baily
Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never lived. The world as we know it is the product of its geniuses—and there may be evil as well as beneficent genius—and to deny that fact, is to stultify all history, whether it be that of the intellectual or the economic world.
Norman Robert CampbellStichwörter: science life music world history economics genius scientists intellect isaac-newton newton beethoven ludwig-van-beethoven richard-wagner wagner galileo bach giants geniuses galileo-galilei beneficent johann-sebastian-bach lavoisier lavoisier-antione-lavoisier
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