Bertrand Russell Quotes

A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

I think people love fundamental science.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

I felt I had had enough of politicians and government upheavals …. Suddenly I was enveloped in the feeling that only science is lasting.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.

You should only go into science if you really have a yearning to make scientific discoveries.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

Men study science as god not the God of science.

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

I am only a physicist with nothing material to show for my labours. I have never even seen the ionosphere, although I have worked on the subject for thirty years. That does show how lucky people can be. If there had been no ionosphere I would not have been standing here this morning.

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.