Scientist Quotes

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
Science does not permit exceptions.
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.
It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
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