Scientists

“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.”

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”

“Gott würfelt nicht.”

“God does not play dice with the universe.”

“The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”

“From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”

“The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.”

“My methods are really methods of working and thinking; this is why they have crept in everywhere anonymously.”

“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental.”

“The universe cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures.”

“Douter de tout ou tout croire, ce sont deux solutions également commodes, qui l'une et l'autre nous dispensent de réfléchir.”

“To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.”

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”

“The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.”

“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.”

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.”

“God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.”

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”

“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.”

“Every man can, if he so desires, become the sculptor of his own brain.”

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”

“每个科学家都梦想做一些能帮助世界的事情。”

“Every scientist dreams of doing something that can help the world.”

“In a spiral galaxy, the weights of stellar orbits at large radii are predominately supported by the gravitational attraction of the unseen mass.”

“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”