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The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

~ Hans Selye

Hans Selye Research Science

As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

~ Hans Selye

Hans Selye Friendship Self Esteem

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.

~ Hans Selye

Hans Selye Being Emotion Essence Mysterious Mystery Science Talent Wonder

Hans Selye, the pioneer in the understanding of human stress, was often asked the following question: What is the most stressful condition a person can face? His unexpected response: Not having something to BELIEVE in.

~ Hans Selye

Hans Selye Believe Believe In Yourself Believer

Indeed, not all attacks—especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin—are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

~ Hans Selye

Hans Selye Ad Hominem Attacks Biology Charles Darwin Darwin Darwinism Evolution Good Faith Natural Selection Ridicule Science

Adapting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

~ Hans Selye

Hans Selye Attitude Positive Stress

I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, 'I propose to have an accident in a culture so that it will be spoiled by a mould falling on it, and I propose to recognize the possibility of extracting an antibiotic from this mould.

~ Hans Selye

Hans Selye Accident Alexander Fleming Antibiotic Discovery Doubt Fleming Penicillin Science Sir Alexander Fleming

Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data.

~ Hans Selye

Hans Selye Chance Data Immortality Intellectual Random Science Scientific Wilder Dwight Bancroft

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

~ Hans Selye

Hans Selye Positive Stress Negative

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

~ Hans Selye

Hans Selye Love Stress Man
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