Dan Shechtman Quotes

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

A humble scientist is a good scientist.

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

I want to learn from everybody.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.

Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.

There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honor, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

Modern science rests on a universality that transcends ethnic, racial, and religious frameworks.

We need the self-confidence to admit that at best we possess only a partial understanding of the truth, which can be enlarged by refining our views in light of new arguments, new circumstances and new insights. But this requires us to listen to others, to weigh their arguments with care, and maybe even to learn from them.

We should all be troubled when science is treated as if it were an ideology rather than a discipline.

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

At the end of the day, none of us are the Oracle of Delphi, so we don't get everything right. It's always good to be able to listen and to take on what seems to be the right thing to do.

Only by ignorance is science threatened.

No matter how much you know, you can always learn more and be a good listener.

You don't have to always be the smartest person in the room, but if you listen and absorb what you are hearing, you will be ahead of the game.

I'm a coachable person. I don't like to lead myself. I've been taught by great people, and I was able to listen to them.

We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should listen carefully to the views of the cadres at the lowest levels. Be a pupil before you become a teacher; learn from the cadres at the lower levels before you issue orders.

Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.