Robert Robinson Quotes

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

When I started on my research, I never expected I could invent the LED and laser diode.

I'm very interested in science.

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.

What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it means that usually people was awarded for the invention of the basic theory. But in my case, not a basic theory, in my case just making the device, you know.

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

We especially need imagination in science.

We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

When you are on the very frontier of science, everything is chaotic.