To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.
In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes.
It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.
A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.
Typically, there's a drive in science to do something just to say you've done it.
The California Science Center is a cornerstone in California's push to educate and encourage students to reach their full potential and to pursue careers in science and engineering.
There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.
A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.
