Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

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.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

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.

Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.

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

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

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

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

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.

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science.

I felt I had had enough of politicians and government upheavals …. Suddenly I was enveloped in the feeling that only science is lasting.

I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.