Scientist Quotes

“Isn’t that what it means to be a scientist? To push the boundaries of the unknown? To bravely, actively explore the enormity of our universe ?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“Be patient with him. If the same quality did not exist in you, you wouldn’t notice it in him.”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“The perfect being, huh? There is no such thing as perfect in this world. That may sound cliché, but it’s the truth. The average person admires perfection and seeks to obtain it. But, what’s the point of achieving perfection? There is none. Nothing. Not a single thing. I loathe perfection! If something is perfect, then there is nothing left. There is no room for imagination. No place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities. Do you know what that means? For scientists such as ourselves, perfection only brings despair. It is our job to create things more wonderful than anything before them, but never to obtain perfection. A scientist must be a person who finds ecstasy while suffering from that antimony. In short, the moment that foolishness left your mouth and reached my ears, you had already lost. Of course, that’s assuming you are a scientist”
― Tite Kubo

“Right? I don’t know why I did it. Temporary insanity, maybe. Did you ever do something that makes absolutely no sense, but you couldn’t help yourself?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“He shoved her aside and forced his sword, to the hilt, straight through James’s torso.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

“I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.”
― Leo Szilard

“I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Be brave. Be free from philosophies, prophets and holy lies. Go deep into your feelings and explore the mystery of your body, mind and soul. You will find the truth.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.”
― Nikola Tesla, Problem of Increasing Human Energy

“I have studied these things - you have not.”
― Isaac Newton

“Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; mais une accumulation de faits n'est pas plus une science qu'un tas de pierres n'est une maison.

The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”
― Henri Poincare, Science and Hypothesis

“All of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in travel we attain them all. Then we have our day of glory, when all our dreams come true, when we can be anything we like, as long as we like, and, when we are tired of it, pull up stakes and move on. Travel -- the solitude of the mountains, the emptiness of the desert, the delicacy of the minaret; eternal change, limitless contrast, unending variety.' (Eric Lang)”
― Robert Edison Fulton Jr., One Man Caravan

“A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.”
― Oliver Butterworth, The Enormous Egg

“Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, 'Arise, Sir: it is near seven o'clock and you have great work to do today.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [the scientist] must nevertheless remain sincere and modest, if only because his studies constantly bring home to him that, compared with the gigantic aims of science, his own contribution, no matter how important, is only a drop in the ocean of truth.”
― Louis de Broglie, Nouvelles perspectives en microphysique

“A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.”
― Harmony Korine

“Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Love permeates all things and laws.
Scientists should research it more.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.

{Gibbs's obituary for scientist Rudolf Clausius}”
― Josiah Willard Gibbs

“The intention (of an artist) is (the same as a scientist)...to discover and reveal what is unsuspected but significant in life.”
― H W Leggett

“I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Unrestrained science is a hundred times more dangerous than blind faith.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Truth is the letter, I am only the postman.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Aşkoholic/Amorholic, 3112-3114
(Divine, Ethics and STEM)

All my youth I've done science,
now let me stay drunk, don't wake me up,
let me drift into my final slumber,
smoking, blazing, smoldering with love.

Prose I know not, nor do I know poetry,
I know no pslam, I know no surah -
you keep your cute rhyme and meter,
your cruel equations and dead dogma,
let me go rack and ruin -
costume, custom, all be cinder.

Substantially advanced spirituality
is indistinguishable from science,
and substantially advanced science
is indistinguishable from spirituality.

What good is science that can't refuse to make bombs!
What good is faith that can't refuse to hate!

Almost every scientist rejects pseudoscience
most vehemently, yet when it comes to warfare
very few seem to have the backbone to denounce it -

a sufficiently advanced scientist
eventually refuses to indulge in warfare,
not advanced in years or intellect,
but advanced in accountability,
and a truly holy person eventually
refuses to convert people.

In the garden of love the gardener is the flower,
STEM without ethics is fanaticism with glitter.
I am the equation, solved by neither faith nor intellect -
spin of my particles unsung by LHC,
essence of my being unspliced by CRISPR.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“STEM without ethics is fanaticism with glitter.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Almost every scientist rejects pseudoscience most vehemently, yet when it comes to warfare very few seem to have the backbone to denounce it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“In the garden of love the gardener is the flower, STEM without ethics is fanaticism with glitter. I am the equation, solved by neither faith nor intellect - spin of my particles unsung by LHC, essence of my being unspliced by CRISPR.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“I want scientists with character, not just a militant mouth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Many great and memorable philosophers, scientists, theologians, poets, artists, writers, and musicians were at odds with the majority during their times - not simply because they sought to be rebels or revolutionaries - but because they utilized a gift; and for this they are now highly respected.”
― Criss Jami

“Kindness is my spirituality, welfare is my science,”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human