Eric Gill Quotes

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

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.

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

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

I was always fascinated by how things work and learning about them.

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at that moment.

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.

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.

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

What art was to the ancient world, science is to the modern.

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.