No doubt, a scientist isn`t necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, >eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn`t help him a bit.
- Barbara HartwigWhat is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what`s going on.
- Andy IrvineSome scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
- Frank ZappaA good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.
- Frederick SeitzI am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
- Marie CurieMay every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
- Patrick M. S. BlackettIt sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors
- Thomas Henry HuxleyAs great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
- Ursula K. LeGuin