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Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.
— Konrad Lorenz
Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed,
And daffodillies fill their cups with tears,
To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies. — John Milton
And daffodillies fill their cups with tears,
To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies. — John Milton
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
— John Galsworthy
It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.
[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.] — William Shockley
[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.] — William Shockley
I am not religious in any sense; in fact, I consider myself an atheist.
— Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar
One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.
— Walther Nernst
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
— Iris Chang
I believe that every Nobel Laureate has the feeling that this prize is really a gift - because nobody can or should work just for this prize.
— Klaus Von Klitzing
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
— Desmond Tutu
When [Niels] Bohr is about everything is somehow different. Even the dullest gets a fit of brilliancy.
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
Emil Fischer represents a symbol of Germany's greatness.
— Carl Dietrich Harries
Now I know what the atom looks like.
— Ernest Rutherford
As is known worldwide, Japan has tried to catch up with the western countries since the beginning of this century by importing science from them.
— Kenichi Fukui
Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.
— Maria Goeppert-Mayer
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.
— Gertrude B. Elion
Legendary rock musician. Poet laureate of the working class. Voice of America's conscience.
— Harrison Howe
Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.
— Robert Woodrow Wilson
I'm now 'Doctor' to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.
— Howard Florey
Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.
— John C. Polanyi
A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.
— William A. Henry III
The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.
— Malorie Blackman
There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.
— Allan McLeod Cormack
I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.
— Desmond Tutu
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
— John C. Polanyi
I offer you what I have my
Poverty — W.S. Merwin
Poverty — W.S. Merwin
I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I consider myself an atheist.
— Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
— Thornton Wilder
For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake.
— Ahmed H. Zewail
Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.
— Rita Dove
When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.
— Billy Collins
I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.
— Arthur Kornberg
I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
— Marie Curie
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
— Rita Dove
Poets sing our human music for us.
— Carol Ann Duffy
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable.
— Frank Wilczek
I am an atheist.
— Hans Bethe
Raised in a completely nonreligious family, Joliot never attended any church and was a thoroughgoing atheist all his life.
— Francis Perrin
The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.
— Alan Hodgkin
At lunch Francis winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.
— James D. Watson
Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.
— Hideki Yukawa
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
— Konrad Lorenz
On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung.
Knowledge is the death of research.
Nernst's motto. — Walther Nernst
Knowledge is the death of research.
Nernst's motto. — Walther Nernst
I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov.
— Torsten Wiesel
Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
— Malorie Blackman
Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.
— Edgar Douglas Adrian
[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.
— Harold Urey
The late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer women there are.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Light brings us the news of the Universe.
— William Henry Bragg