Every scientist is a descendant of Humboldt. We are all his family.
Emil Heinrich du Bois-ReymondTags: science admiration honor praise recognition alexander-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt humboldt scientist
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.
Hermann von HelmholtzTags: science genius admiration honor praise recognition alexander-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt humboldt scientist
He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.
Robert G. IngersollTags: science shakespeare admiration drama honor praise william-shakespeare recognition alexander-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt humboldt scientist
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say that it is based upon wonder, adventure and hope.
Cyril Norman HinshelwoodTags: science truth certainty adventure hope wonder emotion criticism fallacy objectivity infallibility scientist
The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist’s job to find the ways in which these laws can serve the human will. However, it is not the scientist’s job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used. This responsibility rests with the American people and with their chosen representatives.
Edward TellerTags: science politics progress humanity people nature responsibility laws-of-nature american job scientist atomic-bomb nuke hydrogen-bomb nuclear-energy representatives
I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.
Napoléon BonaparteTags: atheism atheist french views beliefs astronomer scientist laplace pierre-simon-laplace
A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.
C.P. SnowTags: science truth knowledge responsibility search neutrality bias scientist
I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I consider myself an atheist.
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharTags: atheist views preface beliefs indian gita nobel-laureate scientist
In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a “discovery” of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharTags: science knowledge lost strange fact information insight discovery found nobel-laureate scientist scientific-discovery
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
Edmund B. WilsonTags: science biology history evolution darwin scientist dynasties american-scientist geneticist zoologist
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