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"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought." Albert Szent-Györgi "Newton, forgive me." Albert Einstein"Support bacteria, it's the only culture some people have." Bumper sticker"Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine." Arthur Eddington"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians." Henrik Ibsen"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover." Jules Poincare"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." Sir William Bragg"Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?" Oliver Heaviside"If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature." Albert Szent-Györgi"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea." Francis Bacon"The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel." Claude Bernard"True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant." Miguel de Unamuno "There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it." Cicero, Marcus Tullius"If your experiment needs statistics, then you ought to have done a better experiment." Ernest Rutherford "No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking." Voltaire"Some things need to be believed to be seen." Guy Kawasaki""Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more." George Bernard Shaw "Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination." Bertrand Russell "As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." M. Cartmill"We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity." Marie Curie"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs." Sir Francis DarwinRead Funny Science quotes Know a Great Scientific Quote?Have a favourite scientific quote? Share it! Go back to Science stuffReturn to Home page (from Science quotes)
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