Quotes About Effort

A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

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

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but that's really not the way it worked.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

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).

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.

In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.

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

Toil of science swells the wealth of art.

do something from nothing for nothing is nothing unless it is made something. There is always something common with something and nothing and that is the 'thing

You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning.

I would wish you gods speed but I don't want you to waste time looking for him.