Quotes About Achievement

It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.