Richard Ernst Quotes

The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.

I always looked at myself as a physicist learning new tricks by looking at nature.

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

I love to be a scientist. I've always enjoyed being curious.

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

My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities.

There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up - the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.

Doing physics is a lot of fun if you like it.

I thought I should study physics because it's fundamental to all science.

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

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.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

Experimentation is an active science.

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.

Science is about filling in the details.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

Science is about unravelling nature.

There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of nature and understand how it works.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

I started doing experiments - mostly in organic chemistry, because it was so much more interesting - in my mother's laundry at home.