Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

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

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.

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.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.

I think people love fundamental science.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.

I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.

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 just wanted to be a scientist.

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature.

Who does science determines what science gets done.

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

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.

I've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby.

Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!

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

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

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