I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

~ Thomas Jefferson

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Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension.

~ John Wallis

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I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I consider myself an atheist.

~ Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar

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In the last four days I have got the (results) given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron , Nickel, Cobalt and Copper ... The chief result is that ... the result for any metal (is) quite easy to guess from the results for the others. This shews that the insides of all the atoms are very much alike, and from these results it will be possible to find out something of what the insides are made up of.

~ Henry Moseley

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If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.

~ Peter Debye

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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God, but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

~ Isaac Newton

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The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

~ Luther Burbank

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This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

~ Antoine Lavoisier

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Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

~ Edwin Grant Conklin

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For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to venture out into the wilds of the unknown.

~ Marcus Du Sautoy

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And envy, envious of a time when the poet, the mystic, the scientist and the statesman were nobler than the merchant.

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

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A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.

~ Oliver Butterworth

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When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

~ Michio Kaku

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