Scientist Quotes

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.
When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.
Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Study nature, not books.
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.
Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.
At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.
Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.
Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.
I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.
I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.
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