“The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.” MaySelfMatterFactsHelpingPastProgressMaterialsScientistSignificantDevotedEvidentOdds And Ends Author:Ernest Lawrence
“The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.” MenLongPastHighestScientistFellowsRewardsDebtPrizeSolemnNobelNobel Prize Author:Edward Mills Purcell
“No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing so. Rutherford was one of the greatest experimental physicists, but no nuclear scientist today would study his researches of fifty years ago. Their substance has all been infused into the common agreement, the textbooks, the contemporary papers, the living present.” ThinkingNeedsYearsDoeTodayPastScienceCommonStudyStudentsPaperResearchYears AgoScientistOriginalsNuclearContemporarySubstanceFiftyAgreementPapersPhysicistTextbooks Author:C.P. Snow
“When Arthur Ashe plays tennis, his purpose each day is to play the game in a way he has never played it before. It may be a backhand he uses, one that he may never have used before in that circumstance. His play is a fresh integration of his world at the instant of action. A really great scientist has the whole past at his disposal. At any instant he is rebuilding the world, molecule by molecule, in his subconscious. That is what you want in an athlete or a scientist.” WorldWayWantMayPlayWholeUseActionPastUsedPurposeGamesCircumstancesScientistAthleteWhat You WantInstantTennisEach DaySubconsciousReally GreatIntegrationMoleculesArthurRebuildingGreat Scientist Author:Edwin Land
“More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this should mean a deliberate attempt to understand the thoughts of the great masters of the past, to see in what circumstances or intellectual milieu their ideas were formed, where they took the wrong turning or stopped short on the right track.” ShouldMeanIdeasPastAttentionMastersNeededCircumstancesIntellectualScientistTrackHistorianDeliberateBiologistHistory Of ScienceRight TrackMilieuWrong Turn Author:Ronald Fisher
“Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.” YearsPastExpressionScientistAvailableFiftyConventionsOver The Past Book:Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age Source: Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age
“One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.” PeopleThinkingNeedsShouldHas BeensProblemPastYoungTalkingWrittenSubjectsFitComputerShould HaveScientistExpertsComputer ScienceCurriculumIct Author:Michael Gove
“Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be just too bad for mankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got going into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments.” IfsWellsHas BeensGovernmentPastLyingBitsDealsModernMankindFitBedScientistDressesNuclearOperationsStretchingStrideDrasticPainlessApplied ScienceAmputationTotalitarian Government Author:Aldous Huxley
“There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere.” TryingFirstsTwoPastCoursesProcessConditionsDevelopmentPeriodsFutureScientistMethodEndeavorHistorianSpheresMinorsSurveysSequelsAlterations Book:If I lived my life again Source: If I lived my life again