Scientist Quotes

We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war.
I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.
Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities?
Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.
I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.
When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.
A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.
A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.
A scientist should be the happiest of men.
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.
As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million.
As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.
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