Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
Albert Szent-GyörgyiTags: science thinking creativity discovery nobel-laureate
It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
[Recalling in 1936 the discovery of the nucleus in 1909, when some alpha particles were observed instead of travelling through a very thin gold foil were seen to rebound backward, as if striking something much more massive than the particles themselves. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery.]
Tags: science physics discovery nobel-prize atoms nobel-laureate atomic-science incredible nuclear-physics
For the admirable gift of himself, and for the magnificent service he renders humanity, what reward does our society offer the scientist? Have these servants of an idea the necessary means of work? Have they an assured existence, sheltered from care? The example of Pierre Curiee, and of others, shows that they have none of these things; and that more often, before they can secure possible working conditions, they have to exhaust their youth and their powers in daily anxieties. Our society, in which reigns an eager desire for riches and luxury, does not understand the value of science. It does not realize that science is a most precious part of its moral patrimony. Nor does it take sufficient cognizance of the fact that science is at the base of all the progress that lightens the burden of life and lessens its suffering. Neither public powers nor private generosity actually accord to science and to scientists the support and the subsidies indispensable to fully effective work.
Marie CurieTags: science progress service nobel-laureate admirable curie pierre
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
John GalsworthyTags: inspirational-quotes dreams human-nature nobel-laureate poetry-of-life american-pen-center john-galsworthy pen-clubs
But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.
George SmootTags: science universe cosmology physics astronomy big-bang nobel-laureate astrophysics comprehensible understandable
Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.
Robert Woodrow WilsonTags: science cosmology facts nobel-laureate nobel-lecture observable
Alfvén dismissed in his address religion as a 'myth'...
Helge KraghTags: science atheism myth atheist nobel-laureate alfven hannes-alfven hannes-alfvén
I am an atheist.
Hans BetheTags: atheism atheist physics nobel-prize nobel-laureate bomb nuclear nuke stellar-nucleosynthesis
Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles interact with each other and separate? Or is it to be an understanding at a deeper level in which there are things that are not directly observable (as the underlying quantized fields are) but in terms of which we shall have a more fundamental understanding?
Julian SchwingerTags: science purpose understanding physics quantum-mechanics fundamentals nobel-laureate particle-physics theoretical-physics
True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
Willard F. LibbyTags: consciousness truth reality philosophy ideas epistemology subjective nobel-laureate radiocarbon-dating
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