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“And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? ... Can we behold unmoved the science of England, the vital principle of her arts, struggling for existence, the meek and unarmed victim of political strife?”

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David Brewster

David Brewster was a prominent physicist, born on December 11, 1781, and died on February 10, 1868. He made significant contributions to the field of optics, particularly in the study of polarized light. more

“He will also find that the high and independent spirit, which usually dwells in the breast of those who are deeply versed in scientific pursuits, is ill adapted for administrative appointments; and that even if successful, he must hear many things he disapproves, and raise no voice against them.”

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Author:Charles Babbage

“If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.”

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Book:Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature

Source: Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature

“In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.”

Men Age Science Individual All Time

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.”

Source: Man the Unknown

“Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.”

Men Science Baby Boxes

Author:John B. S. Haldane

“Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.”

Should Motivational Motivation Challenges Greater Difficulty Adversity Spurs Exertion

Author:B. C. Forbes

“The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.”

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Book:Science in history

Source: Science in history

“The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire character; and, more often than not, he ends up becoming what the German language so appropriately calls a Fachidiot (professional idiot).”

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Author:Erwin Chargaff

“The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another.”

Men Science

Author:Samuel Johnson

“There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.”

Men Persons Science Dignity Pursue

Book:Salmonia: or, Days of fly-fishing; in a series of conversations: with some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. Consolation in travel, or, The last days of a philosopher

Source: Salmonia: or, Days of fly-fishing; in a series of conversations: with some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. Consolation in travel, or, The last days of a philosopher

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