My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.
Martin L. PerlTag: science advice ideas physics nobel-laureate scientist experimental-science
If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.
Peter DebyeTag: humor science funny physics problem interest nobel-laureate scientist physicists
Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates.
Melvin SchwartzTag: science nature language discovery math abstraction mathematics nobel-laureate models scientist insights
The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science. If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.
Wilfred TrotterTag: humor science energy mind strange funny ideas new-ideas scientist surgeon antigen neurosurgery-pioneer protein
Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the art of medicine should contribute its portion for the benefit and relief of those for whom the law has shown such foresight...[We] ought to show peculiar zeal...in taking precautions for their safety. I for one have done all that lay in my power, and have not thought it beneath me to step into workshops of the meaner sort now and again and study the obscure operations of mechanical arts.
Bernardino RamazziniTag: science compassion power biology safety security foresight medicine laws zeal relief care scientist benefit antiquity father-of-occupational-medicine good-conditions
My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world.
J.B.S. HaldaneTag: science biology atheism atheist evolution devils scientist experiments intellectual-honesty atheistic methodological-naturalism justified-assumptions
Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest. To be this ploughman, to see my labours result in the furtherance of scientific progress, was the height of my ambition, and now the Swedish Academy of Sciences has come, at this harvest, to add the most brilliant of crowns.
Paul SabatierTag: science ambition metaphor fallibility improvement scientist scientific-theory scientific-progress destructibility swedish-academy-of-sciences
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