“For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.” FeelsKindFunInterestingStonesScientistPuzzled Author:Mary Roach
“Before Kuhn, most scientists followed the place-a-stone-in-the-bright-temple-of-knowledge tradition, and would have told you that they hoped, above all, to lay many of the bricks, perhaps even the keystone, of truth's temple. Now most scientists of vision hope to foment revolution. We are, therefore, awash in revolutions, most self-proclaimed.” SelfVisionRevolutionTraditionStonesScientistLaysTemplesBricksKeystones Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“How scientists go about their job: and it's a process, it's a question of asking questions, respecting observation, respecting experiment, having tentative explanations and then testing them.... There is a problem sometimes with how we teach science at schools. Because we sometimes teach it as if it has been chiseled in stone.” IfsHas BeensSometimesProblemSchoolJobsProcessTeachStonesScientistAskingExperimentsObservationExplanationTestingAsking Questions Author:Paul Nurse
“Think that you are part of a big construction called science and you are not just a chemist but you are scientist. Be modest but proud. Modest because you know you will not be able to solve other problems because your life is too short. But be proud because you are contributing to it. Some people will bring a small stone to the building and some people will bring a big one but nevertheless no one can take that stone away from you.” PeopleThinkingKnowsProblemBigsAbleLife IsBuildingProudStonesScientistSolveConstructionNeverthelessModestBe ProudToo ShortLife Is Too ShortContributingAway From YouChemist Author:Jean-Marie Lehn
“Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.” KnowsWantedRememberHalfStonesScientistPhilosopherNewtonAlchemyPebblesGreat ScientistSeashore Author:Fritz Leiber
“In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.” PeopleWorldShouldFirstsStillsMightFormSocialRocksIdealsStonesScientistMethodTraitsAutismSevereCavesSpearsCampfireIdeal World Book:Thinking in Pictures Source: Thinking in Pictures
“How peacefully he sleep! Yet may his ever-questing spirit, freed at length from all the frettings of this little world, Wander at will among the uncharted stars. Fairfield his name. Perchance celestial fields disclosing long sought secrets of the past Spread 'neath his enraptured gaze And beasts and men that to his earthly sight were merely bits of stone shall live again to gladden those eager eyes. o let us picture him-enthusiast-scientist-friend- Seeker of truth and light through all eternity!” MenWorldLifeMayLittlesLongLightEyePastScienceSpiritNamesStarsBitsSleepSecretFieldsStonesScientistEternitySightSpreadWanderBeastLengthSeekersCelestialUnchartedFretting Author:Charles R. Knight
“When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.” MenRealFactsStoriesRealityFacesScienceCultureBreakHistoryWrittenRocksPagesStonesScientistExposedHammersPrinted Book:Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science Source: Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science