I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature. --William Harvey It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their arithmetical magnitude. -- Baron William Thomson Kelvin I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom. -- Linus Pauling There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed. -- Linus Pauling The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. -- Stephen W. Hawking What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. -- Niels Bohr A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge. -- Max Planck Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. -- Max Planck Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature. -- Werner Heisenberg Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. -- Richard P. Feynman Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. -- Sir Isaac Newton Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. -- Sir Isaac Newton Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. -- Sir Isaac Newton Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. -- Albert Einstein Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. -- Albert Einstein Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. -- Albert Einstein Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. -- Albert Einstein
