Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.
J. Tuzo WilsonMots clés science life theories nature wonder admiration elegance geology woods scientist plate-tectonics scenery scientific-theories laboratory lab
I'm convinced that the best solutions are often the ones that are counterintuitive - that challenge conventional thinking - and end in breakthroughs. It is always easier to do things the same old way...why change? To fight this, keep your dissatisfaction index high and break with tradition. Don't be too quick to accept the way things are being done. Question whether there's a better way. Very often you will find that once you make this break from the usual way - and incidentally, this is probably the hardest thing to do—and start on a new track your horizon of new thoughts immediately broadens. New ideas flow in like water. Always keep your interests broad - don't let your mind be stunted by a limited view.
Nathaniel J. WyethMots clés science thinking mind creativity ideas satisfaction question convention innovation tradition new-ideas view cleverness solutions scientist counterintuitive limited-view
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.
Tycho BraheMots clés science politics energy humanity mind humanism earth astronomy astronomer statesmen scientist fatherland hold-firm
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
Antoine LavoisierMots clés science truth reason nature trust naturalism facts scientific-method observation chemistry experiment scientist submit chemist father-of-modern-chemistry
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
Antoine LavoisierMots clés science french theory discovery invention chemistry posterity scientist scientific-theory oxygen-theory
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 KoppMots clés 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
On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu.
Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
Mots clés philosopher kill conqueror a-god scientist assassin murderer double-standard
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 RostandMots clés science time admiration achievement praise scientist louis-pasteur inconceivable
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}
Mots clés 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. MullikenMots clés 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
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