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- The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.
- H. Stanley Judd
- There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. "Chance," Pastuer wrote, "favors only the prepared mind." The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know-how, but also by the awareness of social needs.
- Saturday Review
- Solutions- The first step toward a cure is to know what the disease is.
- Latin
- I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
- In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
- Richard Osler
- All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
- Lawrence J. Peters
- If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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