Scientific Investigation Quotes

My dream was to be a 'scientist' even before I knew what a scientist did.

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

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.

What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

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.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

The aim of natural science is not simply to accept the statements of others, but to investigate the causes that are at work in nature.

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

I knew I wasn't going to be a scientist; I knew that early. When they started talking about dissecting frogs, I knew I wasn't going to be a scientist.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Science is not just a topic we can step around or ignore.

Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable

In science it is not enough to think of an important problem on which to work. It is also necessary to know the means which could be used to investigate the problem.

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

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.

I think people love fundamental science.

Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a great cathedral? If such achievements represent anything more than the requirements of physical law, it means that science must investigate the additional controlling factors, whatever they may be, in order that the world of nature may be adequately understood.

Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.

Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.

I just wanted to be a scientist.

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is