Scientist Quotes

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and."
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
Who will observe the observers?
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'
If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
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