Quotes About Challenge

But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

Given any rule, however ?fundamental? or ?necessary? for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

Why don't you light that candle ?

Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.

It doesn't matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

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

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.