Quotes About Persistence

Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

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

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

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

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

Neue Phaenomena zu erklären, dieses macht meine Sorgen aus, und wie froh ist der Forscher, wenn er das so fleissig Gesuche findet, eine Ergötzung wobei das Herz lacht.

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

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).

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.

I'm no quitter, unless it comes to human relationships or math and science.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.