Scientist Life Quotes:

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

- Immanuel Kant

topic: Life, Motivational, Success, Knowledge And Wisdom, Inspirational Science

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

- Thomas Huxley

source: "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" (1870)

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Education, Information Science, Quantum Theory

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

- Carl Sagan

topic: God, Spiritual, Philosophy, Pseudoscience, Interfaith

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

- Marie Curie

source: "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Confidence, Empowering Women, Perserverance

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

- Rosalind Franklin

source: "Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA‎". Book by Brenda Maddox (p.61), 2002.

topic: Everyday, Scientist, Should, Women In Science, Science Life

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Change, Humility, Learning, Information Science, Good Science

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beauty, Space Race, Inspirational Animal

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Live For Yourself, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Life, Cute, Romantic, Just Kiss Me, Kisses And Hugs

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

- Isaac Asimov

source: "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Questions". Book edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281, 1988.

topic: Knowledge, Sadness, Science, Life Wisdom, Mathematics And Science

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Proclamation, Inspirational Science

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Leadership, Lack Of Common Sense, Quantum Mechanics

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

The only source of knowledge is experience.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, God, Infinite Knowledge, Information Knowledge

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Hunger For Food, Hunger Poverty

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

- George Porter

source: George Porter's Speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1967.

topic: Coffee, Science, Shirts, Scientist Life

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Science, Reality, Long, Inspirational Science, Science Religion

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

- Arthur C. Clarke

source: Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.

topic: Science, Technology, Possible And Impossible, Information Technology, Awe And Wonder

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Character, Angel, Good Character, Inspirational Character

May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.

- Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

topic: Eye, Science, Discovery, Science Research, Discovery In Science

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

- Henri Poincare

topic: Science, Intuition, Prove, Science Research, Hunches

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.

- Richard P. Feynman

topic: Mean, Humility, Acceptance, Knowing More, Knowing Things

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (1987). “The collected papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921”, p.43, Princeton University Press

topic: Life, Fashion, Men, Peace And Security, Whirlpools

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom, Spacetime, Mathematical Logic

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

- George Wald

topic: Knowledge, Reality, Scientist, Scientist Life