Quotes About Achievement

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.

It's really quite astounding to see what the science says we can actually do.

I have done so much medical and scientific research Crashing Life I am thinking about putting PhD behind my name or maybe B.S.

Don't tell me the sky is the limit - there's footprints on the Moon. - Overheard at a flee market.

A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.