After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved,
science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, read more

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved,
science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and
form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve read more

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute read more

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying read more

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.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an read more

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help read more

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a read more

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure read more

May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great
scientist. They are wrong: it is read more

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great
scientist. They are wrong: it is character.