A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new.
Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
…a theoretical discovery has but the merit of its existence: it awakens hope, and that is all. But let it be cultivated, let it grow, and you will see what it will become.
Louis Pasteur, The Life of Pasteur
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man…
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.
Marie Curie, The Discovery of Radium
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature; and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.
Michael Faraday, The Life and Letters of Faraday, Vol. II
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle…
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
…scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.
Marie Curie, The Discovery of Radium
Between the days of fecund productivity are inserted days of uncertainty when nothing seems to succeed, and when even matter itself seems hostile; and it is then that one must hold out against discouragement.
Marie Curie, Pierre Curie
Every impression produced a thousand echoes in my mind. I wanted to know more of this wonderful force…
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
There will come with the greater love of science greater love to one another.
Maria Mitchell, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
…it is wonderful to think how few are the powers by which all the phenomena of nature are governed.
Michael Faraday, A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter
…in the pursuit of science we first start with hopes and expectations; these we realise and establish never again to be lost, and upon them we found new expectations of further discoveries, and so go on pursuing, realising, establishing, and founding new hopes again and again.
Michael Faraday, A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter
Without the sense of collaborating with like-minded beings in the pursuit of the ever unattainable in art and scientific research, my life would have been empty.
Albert Einstein, What I Believe
…Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.
Louis Pasteur, The Life of Pasteur
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Maria Mitchell, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.
Maria Mitchell, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Maria Mitchell, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein, What I Believe
It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we can dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend even an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
Albert Einstein, What I Believe
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.
Maria Mitchell, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
…chance only favours the mind which is prepared…
Louis Pasteur, The Life of Pasteur