Quotes About Research

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

A scientific or technical study always consists of the following three steps: 1. One decides the objective. 2. One considers the method. 3. One evaluates the method in relation to the objective.

Our true mentor in life is science.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

Science is public, not private, knowledge.

The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.