“My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a scientist and physician. They worked at the same jobs for their entire life, 50 years each.” YearsJobsMotherFatherCareersSuccessfulScientistProfessorsPhysiciansMother And FatherSuccessful Career Author:David Plotz
“One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.” ScienceRealizingNumbersSuccessfulStupidScientistDullConceptionNarrow-mindedNarrow Minds Author:Konrad Lorenz
“The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.” MenImportantMotherArtistSuccessfulScientistSupremeAssetsStatesmenBusiness Man Book:Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v Source: Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v
“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.” KnowsWorldDoeFactsWisdomPoliticsCommunityEconomySuccessfulTheoryActivityNormalCommitmentScientistAimFundamentalsAssumptionLiberalismPuzzlesNoveltySubversive Author:Thomas Kuhn
“When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the test with flaws corrected, they withdraw their original claims. They do not defend them by arguing irrelevantly that the failed replication was successful in some other way, or by making intemperate attacks on whomever dares to criticize their competence.” WayResultsSuccessfulFailingAtheismTestsScientistClaimsOriginalsDarePositive AtheismArguingExperimentsFantasticRepeatsFlawsCriticizeCompetenceReplication Author:Martin Gardner
“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.” PeopleIfsWayMovingArtistCultureGoalAcceptingSuccessfulPaintingTheoryTruth IsAspectScientistUniversalMusicalSomedayCompositionReplacedLiteralUniversal TruthCulture ChangeSociety And CultureMusical Composition Author:Daniel Levitin
“Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.” HeartArtistFightingWinningSportsLeaderSuccessfulTeacherPlayerFootballScientistCoachesCharacteristicsExecutivesDedicatedHonoredHallmarkMoraleWill To WinFootball CoachCoaches And PlayersEnterprising Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become a successful writer?” MotherNamesSuccessfulWonderfulSonDaughterScientistJealousBeing Jealous Author:Mary Higgins Clark