Scientist Quotes

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

And yet it moves.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.