Famous quotes by Scientists

"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear"

John B. S. Haldane, Scientist

John B. S. Haldane

"Who will observe the observers?"

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

"The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world"

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself"

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

"It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control"

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one". We forget that we still have to make a study of "and""

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

"Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo"

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter"

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset"

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

"It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them"

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

"There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"With prophecies, the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"Once we know our weaknesses, they cease to do us any harm"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things, but connects it with them, and makes it hard for it to free itself from them"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already!"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy, at least until we have become as clever as they are"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument, with which we feel and judge, can be subject"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

"To err is human, also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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