Edward Appleton Quotes

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.

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

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

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 see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

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).

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

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.

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

I think people love fundamental science.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

I'm very interested in science.

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

A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.

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

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

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

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

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.

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

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.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'