Scientists

“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.”

“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.”

“Der Gemütszustand, der zu solcher Arbeit befähigt, ist dem des Religiösen oder Verliebten ähnlich; das tägliche Streben entspringt keinem Vorsatz oder Programm, sondern unmittelbar dem Herzen.”

“The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshipper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.”

“If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off. No matter what they say.”

“The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”

“From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”

“The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.”

“In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.”

“The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.”

“My methods are really methods of working and thinking; this is why they have crept in everywhere anonymously.”

“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental.”

“The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.”

“The universe cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures.”

“Douter de tout ou tout croire, ce sont deux solutions également commodes, qui l'une et l'autre nous dispensent de réfléchir.”

“To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.”

“Loin de l'équilibre, la matière acquiert des propriétés nouvelles.”

“We are living in a world of self-organization. Far from equilibrium, matter acquires new properties — properties that are not contained in the laws governing individual particles. Organization, complexity, and life itself emerge from disorder through irreversible processes.”

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

“The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.”

“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.”

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”

“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.”

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.”

“God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.”

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”

“Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.”

“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.”

“Every man can, if he so desires, become the sculptor of his own brain.”

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”

“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.”

“每个科学家都梦想做一些能帮助世界的事情。”

“Every scientist dreams of doing something that can help the world.”

“In a spiral galaxy, the weights of stellar orbits at large radii are predominately supported by the gravitational attraction of the unseen mass.”

“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”