Quotes about science. New modern aphorisms
Science is the knowledge of stupid other people's opinions.
Georg Lichtenberg
All science is prediction.
Herbert Spencer
Science is spectral analysis; art is a synthesis of light.
Karl Kraus (1874–1936), Austrian writer
What was an art that separated the smart from the stupid becomes a science that unites them.
Mikhail Gasparov (b. 1935), philologist
Science is often confused with knowledge. This is a gross misunderstanding. Science is not only knowledge, but also consciousness, that is, the ability to use knowledge properly.
Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841–1911), historian
Science is a belief in the ignorance of experts.
Richard Feynman (1918–1988), American physicist
Science begins with myths and with a critical attitude towards myths.
Karl Popper (1902–1994), Austrian-British philosopher
Science is always wrong. She is not able to solve a single question without raising a dozen new ones.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), English playwright
Science confirms our misconceptions.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–1966), Polish poet and aphorist
Science does not answer all questions, even in the investigator's office.
Henryk Jagodzinski (b. 1928), Polish satirist
Science does not answer all questions, but it helps to understand the meaninglessness of many of them.
Henryk Jagodzinski
Science, like virtue, is its own reward.
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), English writer
There can be no scientific morality; but in the same way there cannot be an immoral science.
Henri Poincaré (1854–1912), French mathematician and physicist
If curiosity concerns serious problems, it is already called the thirst for knowledge.
Maria Ebner Eschenbach (1830–1916), Austrian writer
Knowledge is one of the forms of asceticism.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher
To understand any science, you need to know the history of this science.
Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French philosopher
Scientific knowledge is not needed anywhere except science.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993), English essayist
Give a superstitious person science and he will turn it into superstition.
George Bernard Shaw
The bankruptcy of science is most often said by those who have not invested a penny in this enterprise.
Felix Chwalibug (1866–1930), Polish man of letters
The only thing my long life has taught me is that all our science, in the face of reality, looks primitive and childishly naive - and yet it is the most valuable thing we have.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German physicist
The less I believe in science, the more I fear it.
Jean Rostand (1894–1977), French biologist
The Church saves sinners, science is looking for ways to stop their production.
Elbert Hubbard (1859–1915), American writer
Science finds cures easier than answers.
Jean Rostand
Society can be divided into two parts: those who believe that science can do everything, and those who are afraid that it will be so.
Dixie Rae (1914–1994), American politician
As science increases our power, it decreases our pride in ourselves.
Claude Bernard (1813–1878), French physiologist
Science made us gods before we learned to be human.
Jean Rostand
It seems that things are heading towards the fact that Science will discover God. And I tremble in advance for his fate.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec
Science is a way of unraveling the mysteries of the world by discovering new mysteries.
A. Davidovich
Science is a drama of ideas.
A. Einstein
Science is a graveyard of hypotheses.
A. Poincare
Science is the systematic expansion of the field of human ignorance.
R. Gutovsky
Science is not and will never be a finished book. Every important success brings new questions. Every development reveals new and deeper difficulties over time.
A. Einstein
Science has conquered many diseases, cracked the genetic code and even allowed man to land on the moon, but when an eighteen-year-old man stays in the same room with two eighteen-year-old barmaids, nothing happens. Because the real problems are the same from century to century.
B. Allen
Science serves only to give us an idea of the extent of our ignorance.
F. Lamennais
Just as for some science seems like a heavenly goddess, so for others it seems like a fat cow that gives them butter.
F. Schiller
Moving forward, science constantly crosses itself out.
V. Hugo
The most ardent defenders of science, who cannot bear even a slight sidelong glance at it, are usually those people who have achieved very little in science and who are aware of this shortcoming of theirs.
G. Lichtenberg
The key to all science is the question mark.
O. Balzac
It is not the truths of science that are difficult, but the clearing of human consciousness from all hereditary rubbish, all settled silt, from mistaking the unnatural for the natural, the incomprehensible for the understandable.
A. Herzen
An undoubted sign of true science is the awareness of the insignificance of what you know in comparison with what is revealed.
L. Tolstoy
The fruits of true science and true art are the fruits of sacrifice, not of material gain.
R. Rolland
All the power of science is aimed today at strengthening the State. Not a single scientist thought of using his knowledge to protect the individual. Here, perhaps, Freemasonry would be useful.
A. Camus
The living luminary of science is a learned man who has privatized a range of scientific problems and jealously protects them from the encroachment of those who see the solution to these problems differently.
V. Zubkov
Many discoveries in science are made by chance, but not by chance people.
Author unknown
Astronomy grew out of superstition; eloquence - from ambition, hatred, flattery, lies; geometry - out of greed; physics - out of empty curiosity; all sciences, even morality itself, come from human pride.
J. J. Rousseau
Scientific work is when you read two books that no one has ever read in order to write a third book that no one will read.
Definition proposed by NASA employees
The basic scientific method is trial and error.
Author unknown
I lost interest in science books
Not because I became lazy;
Learning is too bitter,
And the fruit, as a rule, is wormy.
I. Tuberman
One small doubt: I am afraid that, while conquering new stars, man may lose the ground under his feet.
E. Lec
Idealism increases in direct proportion to the distance to the problem
A scientist is a lazy person who kills time with work
Make a discovery - take the future by surprise
Every miracle must find its own explanation, otherwise it is simply unbearable.
Karel Capek
Look closely at a phenomenon and you will see that it is the husk of something else that lies deeper than it.
Pavel Florensky
A sound scientific explanation encounters various obstacles at every step. One of them is lack of knowledge, the second is fear at the sight of miracles, the third is distrust of knowledge, the fourth is material interest.
Nikolay Rubakin
He who does not see the vanity of the world is vanity himself. To mock philosophy is really to philosophize.
Blaise Pascal
Scientific knowledge is not all knowledge; it has always been “extra”, in competition, in conflict with another type of knowledge, which we will call for simplicity narrative and which we will characterize later. This does not mean that the latter can prevail over scientific knowledge, but its model is associated with the ideas of inner balance and friendliness ( convivialite), in comparison with which modern scientific knowledge pales in appearance, especially if it must undergo an exteriorization in relation to the “knower” and an even stronger alienation than before from its users.
The resulting demoralization of researchers and teachers is difficult to neglect, especially since it broke out, as is known, in the 60s among those who decided to devote themselves to these professions, among students in all the most developed countries, and was able to significantly slow down productivity during this period laboratories and universities that could not protect themselves from infection. There was no question that a revolution would come out of this, no matter how much they hoped for it or - as has happened more than once - no matter how much they feared it; the course of things in post-industrial civilization will not change from today to tomorrow.
However, when it comes to assessing the present and future status of scientific knowledge, such an important component as the doubt of scientists cannot be excluded from consideration.
Moreover, the status of scientific knowledge is also intertwined with the main problem - the problem of legitimation. We take this word in the broadest sense that it received in discussions on the question of power among modern German theorists. Or a civil law, and it says: such and such a category of citizens must perform such and such actions. Then legitimation is the process by which the legislator is allowed to proclaim a given law as a norm. Or a scientific statement, and it is subject to the rule: a statement must satisfy such and such a set of conditions in order to be perceived as scientific.
Here, legitimation is the process by which the “legislator” interpreting scientific discourse is allowed to prescribe specified conditions (in general view, conditions of internal state and experimental verification) so that a certain statement forms part of this discourse and can be taken into account by the scientific community.
Jean-François Lyotard
I imagine the vast sphere of science as a wide field, some parts of which are dark, while others are illuminated. Our works are aimed either at expanding the boundaries of illuminated places, or at multiplying light sources on the field. One is characteristic of the creative genius, the other is characteristic of the insightful mind that makes improvements.
Denis Diderot
One must decide to introduce into the thinking apparatus the necessary distinction between obvious philosophy and pleasant philosophy. In other words, we can come to a philosophy that is disgusting to the mind and heart, but which suggests itself. So, for me, obvious philosophy is absurd. But this does not prevent me from having (or, more precisely, from considering) a pleasant philosophy. For example: an exact balance between the mind and the world, harmony, completeness, etc. Happy is the thinker who surrenders to his inclination, and the one who denies himself this - out of love for the truth, with regret, but decisively - is an exiled thinker.
Albert Camus
In science we must look for ideas. No idea, no science. Knowledge of facts is precious only because ideas are hidden in facts: facts without ideas are rubbish for the head and memory.
Vissarion Belinsky
Working for science and for general ideas is personal happiness.
Anton Chekhov
Neglecting the opportunity to use scientific data in public life means belittling the importance of science. Science helps us in the fight against fanaticism in all its manifestations; it helps us to create our own ideal of justice, without borrowing anything from erroneous systems and barbaric traditions.
Anatole France
Science is an attempt to bring the chaotic diversity of our sensory experience into conformity with some unified system thinking.
Aphorisms, quotes, phrases about science and technology
When people start thinking like robots, the robots end up performing even worse.
Artemy Lebedev "Kovodstvo"
Teapots are smart these days. Soon dogs will learn to walk.
Andrey Valentinov and Henry Lyon Oldie "Tirman"
The scientific method, despite all its shortcomings, is still the most reliable way understanding of the world.
Declaration of Secular Humanism
The people who invent engines are not extinct yet.
Ayn Rand
Technologies! Now they connect people after being separated in different directions.
Harlan Coben
Modern technology not only depersonalizes people; it guts and turns them inside out, stripping them of the last vestiges of what was once called “private life.”
Harlan Coben
When robots do all the work for a person in the world, they will demand that a person at least not mutter under their arm.
Boris Krieger
Automation in the judicial process will lead to the fact that the judge, instead of banging a gavel, will press a button.
Boris Krieger
Buyers do not like automation in trading because, unlike the seller, it is difficult for the machine to fool its head.
Boris Krieger
Scientists will not save the world. They will not find the right solutions, they will only be able to point out negative consequences wrong decisions.
Bernard Werber "Empire of Angels"
From time to time, science, along with God knows what discoveries, confirms at the level of the latest achievements what people have always known.
Mikhail Weller "Cassandra"
We, without realizing it, have given birth to a whole generation of devices that are already so perfect that they are about to start doing without us.
Boris Krieger "Maskin"
Computer science has given us the right to complete and safe delusions of grandeur.
Bernard Werber "Revolution of the Ants"
Modern technologies are making people increasingly weak-minded.
Vladimir Mikhailov
I admit that technology is more powerful and stronger than me: it works when it wants, and when it doesn’t want, then its owner better read the newspaper, take a walk, wait until the mood of the cables and telephone networks changes, and then it will work again. What kind of owner am I - she lives her own life.
P. Coelho
The point is not that amateurs can afford to stick their nose anywhere - they are simply obliged to stick their nose anywhere, and to hell with all the scientific fools who try to hide them in some tight stone bag.
John Fowles
It seems to me that science with its sobriety,
intelligence and gray hair
digs around in nature with impudent agility
boys who rummage through the clock.
Igor Guberman
Science is like time. She always goes forward and never back. Each new day brings a lot of unknowns and brings us closer to revealing the secrets of the universe. This is the essence of science. Perpetual motion is the key to success. Knowledge moves us, and we, in turn, control the minds of those around us through the means of science.
K. Thompson
No matter how many illusions enthusiasts create on this score scientific method, but it has never been, will not be and cannot be either the only method of cognition or the only method of mastering matter.
Daniil Andreev "Rose of the World"
Painstakingly accumulating facts, deducing certain patterns from them, not understanding either their nature or direction, but mastering them mechanically, and at the same time being unable to predict what inventions and social upheavals its discoveries will lead to - science has long been accessible to everyone , regardless of everyone's moral character. The results are before our eyes and above our heads. The main one is that not a single person on Earth is guaranteed that at any moment a hydrogen bomb or another, even more stunning achievement of science will not be dropped on him and his fellow citizens by highly intelligent minds.
Daniil Andreev "Rose of the World"
Science is the best modern way satisfying the curiosity of individuals at the expense of the state.
L.A. Artsimovich
Only science will change the world. Science in a broad sense: how to split an atom, and how to raise children... And adults too.
Nikolay Amosov
For modern humanity, science has become an idol to which it is ready to make countless sacrifices, at least in words, and is even ready to sacrifice its dignity.
Nikolai Lossky
Human life is not eternal, but science and knowledge cross the threshold of centuries.
Igor Kurchatov
If a famous but old scientist claims that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. If he claims that something is impossible, he is very likely wrong.
Arthur Clarke
If an idea rejected by a famous but old scientist finds wide interest and warm support among the general (non-science) public, the famous but old scientist is definitely right.
Isaac Asimov
We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology, in which almost no one knows almost anything about science or technology.
Carl Sagan
One of the greatest disasters of civilization is the learned fool.
Karel Capek
When you are thirsty, it seems that you will drink the whole sea - this is faith; and when you start drinking, you’ll only manage two glasses at most—that’s science.
A.P.Chekhov
A theory is something that no one believes except its author. An experiment is something that everyone believes except its author.
A. Einstein
I want to know all the thoughts of God... and the rest is just minor details.
A. Einstein
No, this trick doesn't work... Well, how are you going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics such an important biological phenomenon as first love?
A. Einstein
If we knew exactly what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, could it?
A. Einstein
What cannot be expressed in numbers is not science, but just opinion.
R. Heinlein
Science gives man ever-increasing power over the external world, literature helps him put the inner world in order.
Andre Maurois
If the form of manifestation and the essence of things directly coincided, then all science would be superfluous.
Karl Marx
What is science today is technology tomorrow.
Edward Teller
Man has lost the ability to foresee and prevent. He will end up destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
All great discoveries are made by people whose feelings precede their thoughts.
Charles Parkhurst
If I have managed to make any valuable discovery in my life, it is more due to patience and attention than due to any other talent.
Isaac Newton
Only those parts that are missing from the car do not wear out...
N.N. Smelyakov
The quantity and complexity of technology, lofty thoughts, wisdom, and erudition can pass for culture, but not for civilization. To become truly civilized, a society requires more than technical excellence and flight of thought.
Clifford Simak "Interchange Station"
The day will come when humanity will outsmart itself. The day will come when we will become mechanized to the point that there will be no place left for people on Earth, only for machines.
Clifford Simak
A common mistake of those who try to create something completely "foolproof" is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
D.Adams
Laziness is the mother of nine out of ten inventions.
Saunders
Our planet is too small for cars. In the end, people will live without moving, like plants.
Andre Maurois
In a civilized society, it is customary to respect the scientific world, as evidenced by certain aphorisms and quotes about science. However, after some time the situation may change dramatically.
For example, previously popular sciences are declared pseudosciences, and their adherents are subjected to general ridicule and contempt.
On the other hand, in science they work ordinary people who end up in instructive stories and become an example for others. It also helps to learn aphorisms and quotes about science from different authors.
“Science can live easily and freely only where it is surrounded by the complete sympathy of society. Science can count on this sympathy if society is sufficiently close to it.”
“...Scientific activity... is the only thing that survives you and that is embedded in the history of mankind for hundreds and thousands of years”
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe
“...Research into the structure of the world is one of the greatest and noblest problems that exist in nature...”
Galileo Galilei
“By method I mean precise and simple rules, strict observance of which always prevents the false from being accepted as true and, without unnecessary waste of mental strength, but gradually and continuously increasing knowledge, contributes to the mind achieving true knowledge of everything that is available to it.”
Rene Descartes
“To maintain the purity of science is the first commandment of a scientist”
Nikolai Nikolaevich Semenov
“The cult of science in the highest sense of the word is perhaps even more necessary for the moral than for the material prosperity of a nation... Science raises the intellectual and moral level; science contributes to the spread and triumph of great ideas"
Louis Pasteur
“Important research is delayed because results in one field are unknown that have long since become classics in a related field.”
Norbert Wiener
“I did not study the laws of nature and made no major scientific discoveries. I did not study them as Newton, Kepler, Faraday and Henry studied in order to find out the truth. I'm just a professional inventor. All my research and experiments were carried out solely with the goal of finding something of practical value."
Thomas Edison
“How amazing is our position in this world! We were born in it, raised, live in it, and we take all this for granted. In essence, we are so little surprised that nothing ever surprises us with its surprise. I think that in young man The sight of a waterfall or a very high mountain excites more surprise than the question of its existence, how it came into being. How he lives, how he stands upright and thanks to what he moves from place to place. Therefore, it turns out that we enter this world, live in it and leave it, without giving ourselves the trouble to think specifically about how everything happens. If it weren’t for the efforts of people with inquisitive minds, who delved into these questions and revealed the most important laws governing our existence on Earth, we would hardly have guessed that there was anything surprising here.”
Michael Faraday
“Master the entire breadth of human knowledge, without confining yourself to one narrow specialty - that’s the first thing I want to advise you...”
Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky
“A scientist knows no greater pleasure than to work and be active. All other pleasures have only the meaning of relaxation for him.”
Ludwig Feuerbach
“I really like the violation of Newton’s fundamental law - the law of inertia at rest, turning it into inertia of motion”
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov
“Nothing contributes so much general development and the formation of children's consciousness, as acquaintance with the history of human efforts in the field of science, reflected in the biographies of great scientists of the past and in the gradual evolution of ideas. Only in this way can we... instill in the younger generation the idea of continuous development and the humanitarian value of science.”
Paul Langevin
"In science, every new point of view entails a revolution in its technical terms"
Friedrich Engels
“Following the thoughts of a great man is the most interesting science”
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
“...Hardly anyone will dispute the beneficial influence of science on technology, but there may be idealistic scientists who will see the rapprochement of science with technology as a derogation of science. For them, a scientist who disinterestedly studies Babylonian inscriptions will seem more sublime than a naturalist who studies phylloxera. But I think that if we are talking about true servants of science, then both are driven by the same need to know the truth and reveal the hidden. This holy flame will always burn in the human chest, a person will always ask questions expressed in the poet’s beautiful verses:
What is there, beyond the limit,
What is there, in the radiance of the golden stars?
Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovsky
“Theoretical research is the study of phenomena in themselves, without their industrial application. But note that there is not a single scientific discovery that would not sooner or later receive practical application.”
Frederic Joliot-Curie
“All scientific work consists of 99 percent failures, and maybe only one percent successes...”
Sergey Lvovich Sobolev
“What has so far been discovered by the sciences lies almost at the very surface of ordinary concepts. In order to penetrate into the depths and distances of nature, it is necessary to abstract both concepts and axioms from things in a more correct and careful way, and in general a better and more reliable work of the mind is necessary.”
Francis Bacon
“Science is one and indivisible. You can’t worry about the development of some scientific disciplines and ignore others. One cannot pay attention only to those whose application to life has become clear, and ignore those whose significance is not realized and not understood by humanity.”
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
“Science is an attempt to bring the chaotic diversity of our sensory experience into conformity with some unified system of thinking”
Albert Einstein
“Scientific truths are always paradoxical when judged on the basis of everyday experience, which captures only the deceptive appearance of things.”
Karl Marx
“Science is mankind’s eternal striving for truth, and truth is achieved only through a long journey in the midst of inevitable errors and misconceptions”
“I don’t believe that the passion for risk and adventure can disappear in our world. If I see anything viable around me, it is precisely the spirit of adventure, which seems ineradicable and manifests itself in curiosity. It seems to me that this is the primary instinct of humanity: I do not know how humanity could continue to exist if it did not have this passion, just as a person completely devoid of memory could not exist. Curiosity and the spirit of adventure, of course, do not disappear."
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
“Great discoveries, leaps forward in scientific thought are created by intuition, a risky, truly creative method. New eras in science always began with changes made to the ideas and postulates that previously served as the basis for deductive reasoning."
Louis de Broglie
“To establish a theory from observations, to correct observations through theory is the best way of all to find the truth.”
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
“The main motive of my life is not to live life in vain, to advance humanity at least a little forward. That is why I was interested in what did not give me either bread or strength, but I hope that my work, maybe soon, or maybe in the distant future, will give me mountains of bread and an abyss of power.”
“In scientific work one cannot make confident predictions about the future, since obstacles always arise that can only be overcome with the emergence of new ideas.”
Niels Bohr
“Everything high and beautiful in our life, science and art is created by the mind with the help of fantasy, and much - by imagination with the help of the mind. We can safely say that neither Copernicus nor Newton, without the help of imagination, would have acquired the significance in science that they enjoy.”
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov
“...The educational value of science lies as much in the discovery itself as in the effort through which it is achieved; in the exposition of the laws, as well as in their history; in the perspective which their totality reveals to reality, in their exact correspondence to the facts and in the discipline which serves to establish them.”
Paul Langevin
“...There is nothing more wonderful than the human brain, nothing more amazing than the process of thinking, nothing more precious than the results of scientific research...”
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
“The ideals that illuminated my path and gave me courage and courage were kindness, beauty and truth. Without a sense of solidarity with those who share my convictions, without the pursuit of the ever-elusive objective in art and science, life would seem absolutely empty to me.”
Albert Einstein
“Science is beneficial only when we accept it not only with our minds, but also with our hearts”
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev
“...In the history of human thinking, the most fruitful directions were those where two different ways of thinking collided”
Werner Heisenberg
“We must strive to establish communication between representatives of mental and physical labor, to harmoniously merge the tasks of science and life, to serve scientific truth and ethical truth”
Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev
“...Human science, essentially rational in its principles and in its methods, can achieve its most significant achievements only through dangerous sudden leaps of the mind, when the abilities freed from the heavy shackles of the old reasoning are manifested, which are called imagination, intuition, wit. Better to say, the scientist conducts a rational analysis and goes through the chain of his deductions link by link: this chain fetters him up to a certain point; then he is instantly freed from it, and the newfound freedom of his imagination allows him to see new horizons.”
Louis de Broglie
“Natural scientists imagine that they are freed from philosophy when they ignore or scold it. But since they cannot move a single step without thinking, and thinking requires logical categories... then in the end they still find themselves subordinate to philosophy..."
Friedrich Engels
“...Science moves in spurts, depending on the successes achieved by the methodology. With each step of the methodology forward, we seem to rise a step higher, from which a wider horizon opens up to us, with previously invisible objects.”
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
“Happiness is given only to those who know. The more a person knows, the more sharply, the more powerfully he sees the poetry of the earth where a person with meager knowledge will never find it.”
“Students and followers constitute the powerful force and priceless wealth of a scientist. A scientist without students, a lone scientist, is, from my point of view, a pitiful and, I would say, ugly phenomenon, for the meaning of a scientist’s life should lie not only in developing new theoretical values, but also in creating a worthy successor, capable of broader and deeper develop, improve the ideas of their teachers and consolidate them in practice"
Konstantin Ivanovich Scriabin
“I value one experience higher than a thousand opinions born only from imagination”
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
“...The work of a scientist is the heritage of all humanity, and science is the area of greatest selflessness. Scientists should be valued precisely as the most productive and precious energy of the people, and therefore it is necessary to create conditions for them under which the growth of this energy would be facilitated in every possible way.”
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
“Do not assert anything that you cannot prove simply and definitely... Respect criticism! Criticism by itself cannot generate new ideas or stimulate great deeds. However, without her everything is shaky. She has the last word."
Louis Pasteur
“To neglect the opportunity to use scientific data in public life means to belittle the importance of science. Science helps us in the fight against fanaticism in all its manifestations; it helps us create our own ideal of justice, without borrowing anything from erroneous systems and barbaric traditions.”
Anatole France
“I keep the subject of my research constantly in mind and wait patiently until the first glimmer gradually turns into full and brilliant light.”
Isaac Newton
“The problem is solved not by the one who is content with partial success, but by the scientist who achieves a full result”
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe
“There is no certainty in sciences where none of the mathematical sciences can be applied, and in that which has no connection with mathematics”
Leonardo da Vinci
“A scientist must be especially picky about experience, the supreme judge of all scientific hypotheses and theories. He must comprehensively test the theory with experiments and carefully exclude all possible sources of error when setting up an experiment, and not discard or hide at least some results that do not fit into his hypothesis. Moreover, if your results begin to be checked by other scientists in different countries and among the confirmed experiments suddenly appear contradictory to your theory, you must check their experience with all possible care and either show that your opponent made a mistake in the experiment, or make sure that he is right , and honestly admit that your theory is wrong or partially correct. It is necessary to admit this directly and boldly without any subterfuge, no matter how unbearably difficult it may be.”
Nikolai Nikolaevich Semenov
“For people who devote themselves to scientific activity, there is nothing more pleasant than increasing the number of their discoveries, but a scientist is especially happy when the results he obtains bring immediate practical benefit.”
Louis Pasteur
“Thought, completely free and as such - left to itself, cannot produce anything, because the soul of science, i.e. its laws, hypotheses and theories need a body, material content for the organism of science to emerge. Dead facts alone, like free speculations alone, do not constitute a science.”
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev
“...In science there are architects who conceive brilliant plans, and workers who carry out those of them that turn out to be feasible. To each his own business, but even the most humble figure has a sacred duty to point out and correct the mistake of the brilliant architect.”
Petr Petrovich Semenov-Tyan-Shansky
“Give an accurate description of the observed natural phenomena, snatch the main ones from the variety of details and trifles, characteristic features, to formulate in a sharp and concise form everything that the eye saw and the thought embraced is such a complex and important task that all difficulties pale in front of it laboratory research or theoretical analysis in the offices of scientists"
Alexander Evgenievich Fersman
“Poetry and science are identical, if by science we should mean not only patterns of knowledge, but the consciousness of the thought hidden in them. Poetry and science are identical, as being comprehended not by any one of the faculties of our soul, but by the entire fullness of our spiritual being, expressed by the word “reason.”
“From living contemplation to abstract thinking and from it to practice - this is the dialectical path of knowledge of truth, knowledge of objective reality”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“From the first steps of my mental activity, I set myself two parallel tasks: to work for science and to write for the people, i.e. popular"
Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev
“...We live in a time when the highest calling of a person is not only to explain, but also to change the world - to make it better, more meaningful, more fully meeting the needs of life”
Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin
“What is known to most people today was the privilege of only a few scientists fifty years ago; and this process will continue until the end, since scientific knowledge is one of the moments of collective adaptation of thinking to facts"
Paul Langevin
“My sincere desire is that my students treat me with criticism; my goal will be achieved when they are convinced that I act consistently; Am I acting correctly? - that's another matter; Only time and experience can show this.”
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov
“...Science moves forward in proportion to the mass of knowledge inherited from the previous generation, therefore, under the most ordinary conditions, it... grows and grows in geometric progression.”
Friedrich Engels
“Science is the source of the highest good for humanity during periods of peaceful labor, but it is also the most formidable weapon of defense and attack during war.”
Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky
“The essential quality of a scientist is hard work. It is necessary to develop self-control and patience when setting up any scientific experiment, since in the first stages of work minor failures, often associated with imperfect methods, are inevitable. An experiment sometimes requires multiple checks, which is usually associated with enormous stress. “Without labor there is no truly great thing,” said Goethe, “and he was absolutely right.”
Konstantin Ivanovich Scriabin
"For common benefit, and especially for the establishment of science in the Fatherland, and I don’t want to rebel against my own father for sin.”
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
“I never claimed to have a complete solution to the issue. First inevitably come: thought, fantasy, fairy tale. Behind them comes scientific calculation. And in the end, execution crowns thought. My works about space travel belong to the middle phase of creativity. More than anyone, I understand the abyss that separates an idea from its implementation, since during my life I not only thought and calculated, but also executed, also working with my hands. However, it is impossible not to have an idea: execution is preceded by thought, precise calculation is preceded by fantasy.”
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
"When a man approaches the end of his life life path, he sadly asks himself the question, is he destined to see those alluring horizons that lie ahead? His consolation is that young, strong people follow him, that old age and youth merge in continuous work to explore the truth.”
Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovsky
“A person is now dealing with such problems that he is breathtaking and dizzy. However, until you feel a little dizzy, you will not be able to understand their essence. Problems are more important than solutions. Solutions may become outdated, but problems remain."
Niels Bohr
“Every science is applied logic”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Scientists know how much benefit science has brought to humanity; they also know what she could achieve now if peace reigned throughout the entire globe. They do not want such words to ever be uttered: “Science has led us to death from atomic and hydrogen bombs" Scientists know that science cannot be to blame. The only people to blame are those who make poor use of its achievements.”
Frederic Joliot-Curie
“Read not to contradict and refute; not to be taken on faith; and not to find a subject for conversation; but to think and reason"
Francis Bacon
“Unlike other architects, science not only draws castles in the air, but also erects individual residential floors of a building before laying its foundation.”
Karl Marx
“False theories are characterized by a complete inability to predict new facts. Every time this kind of fact appears, they are forced to increase new hypothesis to the previous one... Correct theories, on the contrary, are an expression of facts, are dictated by them and are subordinate to them; they foresee new facts with complete clarity, since these facts, by their nature, are organically connected with those already established. In a word, the distinguishing property of correct theories is their fruitfulness."
Louis Pasteur
“...It is likely that 95% of original scientific papers are written by less than 5% of professional scientists, but most of them would not have been written at all if the remaining 95% of scientists had not contributed sufficiently to the creation of a common high level science"
Norbert Wiener
“People who enriched the people not only with facts, but also general principles“, people who moved scientific consciousness forward, that is, who contributed to the success of the thoughts of all mankind, should be placed - and usually become - higher than those who were exclusively engaged in the development of facts.”
Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov
“The truly new can only be discovered if you are ready at a decisive point to leave the foundations on which the previous science rested and to jump, to a certain extent, into the void.”
Werner Heisenberg
“In matters of natural science...knowledge of phenomena is what leads us to research and find the cause. Without this, we will wander like a blind man and even with even less confidence, for we will not know what goal we should set ourselves, but a blind man at least knows where he wants to go.”
Galileo Galilei
“I am one of those who are convinced of the great beauty of science. The scientist in his laboratory is not only a specialist. He is also a child facing natural phenomena that amaze him, like fairy tale. We must be able to tell others about these feelings. We should not put up with the opinion that all scientific progress comes down to mechanisms, machines, gears, although they are also beautiful in themselves.”
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
“If without science there cannot be modern industry, then without it there cannot be modern science.”
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev
“The share of science in a country is determined not only by the funds allocated through state budget, the number of research institutes, but above all the outlook of scientists, the height of their scientific flight"
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov
“Just as eating food without pleasure turns into boring eating, so studying science without passion clogs the memory, which becomes unable to assimilate what it absorbs.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Among all the arts, the art of observation is the most difficult: not only comprehensive knowledge is important here, but broad experience is also necessary, since when observing a phenomenon, it is not enough just to see it, one must dismember the phenomenon and know in what relation the parts are to the whole »
Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky
“In science, it is often not enough to solve some problem or group of problems. After this, you need to take a closer look at these tasks and rethink what problems you solved. Often, when we solve one problem, we automatically find the answer to another question that we had never thought about before.”
Norbert Wiener
“It is very easy to make amazing discoveries, but it is difficult to improve them to such an extent that they have practical value. This is what I do."
Thomas Edison
“...A true scientist must be not just impartial, but the most biased critic of what is most dear to him - his creative work, to which he devoted many days and nights of labor, joy, and inspiration. He must be, as it were, his own enemy - this is both the tragedy and the greatness of the scientist."
Nikolai Nikolaevich Semenov
“Only a mind capable of tracing the inextricable connection between seemingly incompatible phenomena can create true values.”
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
“The talent of an experimenter is reflected in the ability to isolate the phenomenon being studied in its pure form, freeing it from side influences”
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe
“Science is the highest reason of humanity, it is the sun that man created from his own flesh and blood, created and lit in front of him in order to illuminate the darkness of his difficult life, in order to find a way out of it to freedom, justice, beauty”
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
“There are... two types of minds: the first penetrate vividly and deeply into all the consequences arising from the principles, and this is the mind that reasons correctly; others assimilate a large number of principles without mixing or confusing them, and these are geometric minds. Some are characterized by strength and correctness of judgment, while others have broad minds. There may be one together with the other, there may be one without the other, there may be a strong and narrow mind, or a broad but weak mind.”
Blaise Pascal
“The true and legitimate goal of all sciences is to endow human life with new inventions and riches” “Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority”
Francis Bacon
“Every scientific work, every discovery, every invention is universal labor. It is determined partly by the cooperation of contemporaries, partly by the use of the labor of predecessors.”
Karl Marx
“In science we must look for ideas. No idea, no science. Knowledge of facts is precious only because ideas are hidden in facts: facts without ideas are rubbish for the head and memory.”
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
“Experience first benefits science, then harms it, since it reveals both the law and the exception. The average between them does not give the true one.”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“The experiment should not be reduced to simple passive observation. He must, whenever possible, actively intervene in reality, changing the conditions for the occurrence of phenomena, questioning nature in a strictly defined way, so as to see what its answer will be.”
Louis de Broglie
“Science at any time represents the overall result of everything that it has achieved up to that time. But this result is not static. Science is more than a general complex known facts, laws and theories. Criticizing, often destroying as much as creating, science constantly discovers new facts, laws and theories. Nevertheless, the entire structure of science never ceases to develop. It is, so to speak, always under repair, but at the same time is always in use.”
John Bernal
“Philosophers have only explained the world in various ways, but the point is to change it.”
Karl Marx
“One should doubt experimental work until the facts force one to abandon all doubt.”
Louis Pasteur
“If you take away a person’s ability to dream, then one of the most powerful motivations that gives rise to culture, art, science and the desire to fight for a wonderful future disappears.”
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
“...We value hard laboratory work above all else, as a type of work in general full of poetic charm.”
Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky
“A person’s worth should be determined by his deeds, and not by what is said about him.”
Thomas Edison
“At every moment the known is required general idea about the subject, so that there is something to cling to facts, so that there is something to move forward with, so that there is something to assume for future research. Such an assumption is a necessity in scientific work."
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
“Only science teaches how to obtain truth from its only primary source - from reality”
Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev
“Be able to work in a team...Be able to work in a team is, first of all, to correctly perceive criticism and not be shy about criticizing the mistakes of others...”
Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky
“...In any scientific field - both in the field of nature and in the field of history - we must proceed from the facts given to us... we cannot construct connections and introduce them into facts, but we must extract them from the facts and, having found them, prove them as far as possible , empirically"
Friedrich Engels
“If I deal with any subject, I first carry out experiments, and then draw conclusions and build evidence. This is the method to be followed when studying natural phenomena."
Leonardo da Vinci
“The point of view of life and practice should be the first and main point of view of the theory of knowledge. And it inevitably leads to materialism, throwing away the endless fabrications of professorial scholasticism.”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“I don’t know what the world will think about my work, but I personally look at myself as a child who, playing on the seashore, found a few smoother pebbles and a few more colorful shells than others managed, while the immeasurable ocean truth spread out before my eyes unexplored"
Isaac Newton
“Mathematics is the science of the young. It cannot be otherwise. Doing mathematics is a form of mental gymnastics that requires all the flexibility and endurance of youth.”
Norbert Wiener
“Scientists, more than anyone else, can imagine with confidence all the joy of life that science can bring to humanity in conditions of justice and peace.”
Frederic Joliot-Curie
“...In applied sciences it is not so easy to serve the truth. Here, access to the truth is hindered not only by scientific obstacles, that is, by those that can be removed with the help of science. No, in applied science, in addition to these obstacles, human passions, prejudices and weaknesses from different sides influence access to the truth and often make it completely inaccessible.”
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov
“In the objects of our research we must look not for what people think about them or what we ourselves assume about them, but for what we can clearly and obviously discern or reliably deduce, for knowledge cannot be achieved otherwise.”
Rene Descartes
“Two human aspirations - for Knowledge and Power - truly coincide in one and the same thing”
Francis Bacon
“From my own experience, I know what complete happiness comes from persistent scientific work and solving mysteries, of which there are still many in the nature around us. What satisfaction it gives to realize that every new knowledge opens up new opportunities to improve a person’s life, his way of life and culture. At the same time, our horizons are expanding - it’s not without reason that they compare scientific creativity with an ascent to heights, but there is no end to the ascent: only the eternal striving forward moves science.”
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe
“The first place in my life was and is occupied by scientific research, scientific work, free scientific thought and the creative search for truth by an individual.”
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
“...For the development of science, it is required in any given era not only that people think in general, but that they concentrate their thoughts on that part of the vast field of science that at a given time requires development”
James Maxwell
“...To require men to renounce their own judgments and submit to the judgments of others, and to appoint persons wholly ignorant of science or art as judges over learned men, giving them the power to deal with the latter as they please, are such innovations as are capable of leading to destroy the republic and destroy the state"
Galileo Galilei
“Just as speech is composed from a series of words, and certain images from a collection of shadows, so from the mass of comprehended facts, consisting of connections with each other, knowledge is born in its sublime, better sense.”
Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov
"There is no weapon more powerful than knowledge"
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
“...The beauty and greatness of the human mind lies in this: without rest, without respite, without knowing fatigue, without fear of danger, to eternally seek the truth that always eludes it.”
Anatole France
“In the field of observational and experimental sciences - in the study of concrete real nature - a naturalist must - otherwise he cannot work scientifically - accept the reality of the world he is studying as such... The reality of the world is an axiom of scientific work. The scientist makes only amendments here that do not violate this fundamental provision, without which there can be no scientific work.”
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
“The progress of science is determined by the works of its scientists and the value of their discoveries”
Louis Pasteur
“My followers must precede me, contradict me, even destroy my work, while at the same time continuing it. Only from such consistently destroyed work is progress created.”
Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin
“Genius is the patience of thought concentrated in a certain direction”
Isaac Newton
“...The task of science is to reduce the visible movement that only appears in the phenomenon to real internal movement...”
Karl Marx
“A real scientist should not be afraid that individual, most talented students will discover new natural phenomena, develop new methods and surpass their teacher in a number of their scientific achievements... We should be proud of such students, since without this no progress can take place in science, neither in technology, nor in art, nor in literature"
Konstantin Ivanovich Scriabin
“Nothing can be higher than the joy that the study of nature gives us. Its secrets are incomprehensibly deep; however, we, people, are given the opportunity to penetrate them further and further with our gaze.”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“Romanticism is inherent in everything, in particular science and knowledge. The more a person knows, the more fully he perceives reality, the more poetry surrounds him and the happier he is.”
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
“You cannot draw a line between big and small, because both are equally important for the whole”
Niels Bohr
“The acquisition of any knowledge is always useful for the mind, for it can subsequently reject the useless and preserve the good. After all, not a single thing can be loved or hated unless you first know it.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“The true subject of teaching is the preparation of a man to be a man.”
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov
“Science is not at all a collection of laws, a collection of unrelated facts. It is a creation of the human mind with its freely invented ideas and concepts."
Albert Einstein
“Science was born from the experience and thought of mankind; it is a free force”
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
“...With the complete elimination of the hypothesis, i.e. guiding thought, science would turn into a pile of bare facts.”
Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev
“...In science, more than in any other institution of mankind, it is necessary to study the past in order to understand the present and dominate nature in the future”
John Bernal
“We digest hypotheses in the cauldron of our laboratories, they fill the designs of our future experiments, they stimulate our research - that’s all.”
Louis Pasteur
“...A theory that is not verified by experience, despite all the beauty of the concept, loses weight and is not recognized; practice that is not based on a balanced theory ends up losing and losing..."
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev
“...For a materialist, the world is richer, more alive, more diverse than it seems, for every step in the development of science opens up new aspects in it”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“For people of a heroic spirit, everything turns into good, and they know how to use captivity as the fruit of great freedom, and sometimes turn defeat into a great victory!”
Giordano Bruno
“Scientific activity is only fruitful when it constitutes the content of life, its goal”
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe
“Science is a living organism that develops truth”
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
“When studying the truth, one can have a threefold goal: to discover the truth while we still have it; prove it when found; finally, to distinguish it from a lie when we consider it"
Blaise Pascal
“Science is not a subject of pure thinking, but a subject of thinking constantly involved in practice and constantly reinforced by practice. This is why science cannot be studied in isolation from technology.”
John Bernal
“What do the most refined material pleasures mean in comparison with that quiet, calm, but sublime feeling that fills the soul of everyone who truly loves his science! My gratitude to the science I have chosen will not dry up until the end of my life; I love my science as only a son can love a tender mother; What would the years I spent have been like if they had not contained those sweet moments and hours that my studies in science gave me?
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov
“To satisfy this need, palace-observatories will always be built and temples of science will be created. And technology with its immense power of the future will always serve this need.”
Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovsky
“What sciences are more characteristic of the human mind than the natural sciences? They help a person most of all to penetrate into the operation of those laws, the knowledge of which shows how interesting even the most insignificant natural phenomena are. With the help of these sciences, a person finds, in the words of the poet: “... a language in the trees, a book in the streams, chronicles in the rocks and harmony everywhere.”
Michael Faraday
“No matter how probable the guesses that incline my judgment in a certain direction may be, my mere knowledge that this is just a guess, and not reliable and undoubted grounds, is enough to serve as a reason for an opposite judgment.”
Rene Descartes
“A materialistic worldview simply means understanding nature as it is, without any extraneous additions.”
Friedrich Engels
“We must never forget that every advance in our knowledge raises more problems than it solves, and that in this field every new land discovered suggests the existence of vast continents as yet unknown to us.”
Louis de Broglie
“The virtue of science is sufficient in itself; she has no desire to show herself or shine; she is a flower that attracts not the gaze of an ordinary walking person, but only the gaze of a thinking natural scientist; you have to study to know it..."
Ludwig Feuerbach
“Noticing mistakes doesn’t cost much; to give something better is what befits a worthy person.”
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
“Theory transforms new facts into new truths and new principles, striving to build an increasingly complete, accurate, harmonious and useful picture of the world”
Paul Langevin
“...Science is the basis of all progress that makes life easier for mankind and reduces its suffering”
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
“The real hearth of science is not volumes of scientific works, but the living mind of a person, and in order to advance science, it is necessary to direct human thought into a scientific direction. It can be done in various ways: by announcing some discovery, by defending a paradoxical idea, or by inventing a scientific phrase, or by setting forth a system of doctrine.”
James Maxwell
“...What a happy old age can a scientist achieve if his passion for science does not fade, if he manages to win the love and respect of his students, if from his very first steps only the torch of scientific truth illuminates his path, if the false lamps of personal interests and ambition , arrogance, and envy do not lead him astray from the path of serving science, and through it, the people.”
Nikolai Nikolaevich Semenov
“Inspiration is the disposition of the soul towards the most lively acceptance of impressions and the understanding of concepts, and, consequently, the explanation of them. Inspiration is needed in geometry, as in poetry."
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
“There is someone who is higher than scientists, even brilliant ones - this is science itself in its progressive, evolutionary movement”
Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev
"A thinking person has that amazing property“that where an unresolved problem lies, he likes to invent an image of fantasy, which he cannot get rid of, even when the problem is resolved and the truth is obvious.”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“Humanity will not remain forever on Earth, but, in pursuit of light and space, it will first timidly penetrate beyond the atmosphere, and then conquer the entire circumsolar space.”
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
"Nothing happens without a good reason"
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
“The conditions of experimental work in modern sciences make collective work useful and even necessary... The most decisive successes of science in the future, just as they were in the past, will be the result of individual efforts, because the insight of genius, even in its most modest form, will always, essentially, individually"
Louis de Broglie
“Study hard, always study - that’s the second thing I want to advise you”
Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky
“...Science made me love the truth, science served to develop in me the holy idea of duty and obligation to such an extent that I subordinated my very feelings to this idea and am ready to die in cold blood when the duty imposed on me by science demands it.”
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov
“Work is personal life”
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov
“I drew strength from optimism and confidence that I was doing the right thing.”
Petr Petrovich Semenov-Tyan-Shansky
“Science, with its strict analysis of real facts, persistent search for new, more perfect truths and a decisive struggle against conscious errors and prejudices, must permeate all of our technology, culture and way of life.”
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe
“Whoever wants to reason correctly must be able to free himself from the habit of taking everything on faith, must consider opposing opinions equally possible and abandon prejudices...”
Giordano Bruno
“In order for any science to move forward, so that its expansion becomes more perfect, hypotheses are necessary just as evidence from experience and observation”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“The theory in itself is useless. It is useful only because it gives us faith in the connection of phenomena."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“The purpose of scientific knowledge should be to direct the mind so that it makes lasting and true judgments about all objects encountered.”
Rene Descartes
“The true path, which leads in a long but sure way to a theoretical understanding of complex phenomena, consists in the experience and measurement of individual details of a complex phenomenon”
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev
“Sciences only benefit if they use methods and facts borrowed from each other. Each such contact of sciences is always a step forward. True, at the moment when there is a movement forward, prepared by another, related science, there are always backward people who come out with a demand to stop violating the immutable rules established by their science.”
Louis Pasteur
“The significance of research often lies not so much in the fact that it cuts a completely new road through the thick of the forest, but also in the fact that it makes the clearing passable and forces everyone to move along a new path.”
Alexander Evgenievich Fersman
“All science is nothing more than an improvement of everyday thinking”
Albert Einstein
“When a person wants to find out, he explores; when he wants to hide from the worries of life, he invents.”
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
“The truth is so tender that as soon as you step away from it, you fall into error; but this delusion is so subtle that you only have to deviate a little from it and you find yourself in the truth.”
Blaise Pascal
“...Ascetics are needed like the sun. Constituting the most poetic and cheerful element of society, they excite, console and ennoble. Their personalities are living documents indicating to society that besides people arguing about optimism and pessimism, writing unimportant stories out of boredom, useless projects and cheap dissertations, debauchery in the name of denying life and lying for the sake of a piece of bread... there are also people of a different order, people of heroism, faith and conscious purpose"
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
“The creative element consists in finding another, more perfect way to solve the problem posed by the author or setting, based on these experiments, a further task that reveals the question deeper, trying to find an explanation for facts that remain incomprehensible to the author or were not noticed by him.”
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe
“...Science would gain a lot if every scientist, who worked for many years to establish accurate knowledge, at the end of his life paid attention to...not yet substantiated considerations. The only important thing is that this scientific fantasy is not divorced from reality, that it is in constant connection with this reality.”
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
“Hypotheses and theories, doctrines and schemes in many fields of science are ready-made entire atlases of maps. To abandon them means to abandon the path. One can equally get lost in the forest of facts or in the ocean of thought without theories and doctrines.”
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev
“Many, having read my works, will not think about being convinced of the truth of what I said, but only about how to find ways to refute my arguments, right or wrong.”
Galileo Galilei
“Experience is not mistaken, only your judgments are mistaken, which expect from it what it is unable to give.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Only when there is an understanding of phenomena, a generalization, a theory, when the laws governing phenomena are more and more comprehended, only then does true human knowledge begin, science arises”
Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov
“To review the progress of science as a whole, it is useful to compare modern problems science with the problems of a previous era and explore the specific changes that a particular important problem has undergone over the course of decades or even centuries.”
Werner Heisenberg
“Already in his early youth, a scientist must come to terms with the idea that he is destined to know very little about the world around him.”
Anatole France
“Art lives in fiction, science realizes fiction... It’s time to learn the simplest and most obvious truth created by work: the further you go, the easier it gets.” modern technology transforms fiction and conjecture, fantasies and hypotheses into reality, arming a person in his struggle for life.”
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
“...The history of science is not limited to listing successful research. It should tell us about unsuccessful studies and explain why some of the most capable people could not find the key of knowledge, and how the reputation of others gave only greater support to the errors into which they fell.”
James Maxwell
“In the world of scientific ideas, as elsewhere in life, progress and truth do not immediately win: we need to fight for them, mobilize all forces, we need great determination and energy, great confidence in the rightness and faith in victory.”
Alexander Evgenievich Fersman
“...It is absurd to deny the role of fantasy even in the most rigorous science...”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“All our dignity lies in thought. It is not space or time, which we cannot fill, that elevates us, but it is she, our thought. Let us learn to think well: this is the basic principle of morality.”
Blaise Pascal
“...Youth in science is, first of all, courage in setting new tasks, courage in quests, courage in the methods of their implementation. The second is a love for science. From the moment this love ends, the scientist ceases to be young, ceases to be a scientist... The third is the absence of narcissism, complacency, narcissism - the most terrible enemies scientist... Fourth: a real scientist must be free from jealousy and envy. Who solved the difficult problem, who created a new wonderful theory, is, in the end, a secondary question. The joy that a problem has been solved always outweighs, in a young-spirited scientist, the petty annoyance that he or his team did not have to do it. The news of another's great success should make one want to do new, more difficult things..."
Sergey Lvovich Sobolev
“The sooner we are convinced of the unlimited potential of science to do good - and not in some distant future, but today and tomorrow - the sooner the peoples of the world will reject the false and destructive path that leads to war and destruction.”
John Bernal
“Science wins when its wings are unfettered by imagination”
Michael Faraday
“...In science it is customary to prove what is asserted”
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
“A person must believe that the incomprehensible can be understood; otherwise he would not have thought about it.”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“My whole life consisted of thinking, calculating, practical work and experiences"
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
“To go to great inventions, starting from the most insignificant beginnings, and to see that amazing art can be hidden under the first and childish appearance - this is not the work of ordinary minds, but only the thoughts of a superman.”
Galileo Galilei
“There is no broad highway in science, and only he can reach its shining peaks who, without fear of fatigue, climbs its rocky paths.”
Karl Marx
“The scientist must, out of a sense of patriotism, develop his ideas and educate his fellow citizens regarding the role of science, which should serve the liberation of man, and not the accumulation of personal profits. If a scientist does not have basic courage, how will he justify his presence in the laboratory? This is politics, they will tell me. But politics is a wonderful thing that they want to discredit out of bad intentions.”
Frederic Joliot-Curie
“No one was more mistaken in his predictions than the prophets of the limitations of human knowledge”
Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev
“Science has long ceased to shun life and has written on its banner “the scientific sowing will rise for the people’s harvest””
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev
“Work rejuvenates me and returns me to youth. A scientist who avoids youth is a living corpse.”
Petr Petrovich Semenov-Tyan-Shansky
“The happiness of my life is that science and knowledge helped me create a gas mask that saved many thousands of our soldiers.” “...We place above all else hard laboratory work, as a type of work in general full of poetic charm.”
Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky
“We cannot expect favors from nature; It’s our task to take them from her.”
Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin
"Perhaps we owe more to science than to any other species human activity, the emergence of a sense of the need for collective efforts"
Frederic Joliot-Curie
“Hypotheses are scaffolding that is erected in front of a building and taken down when the building is finished; they are necessary for the employee; he should not just mistake the scaffolding for a building.”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“I can’t help but think that science is already close to implementing a project that will bring either unprecedented misfortune or unprecedented benefit to humanity.”
Niels Bohr
“Truth is the highest reality and the highest good; it alone gives real, and not imaginary, happiness.”
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
“The creativity of man in general, and therefore of the scientist, is not a primary, indecomposable property, but the result of two more elementary properties: amazing productivity of imagination (in turn - the result of colossal powers of observation and memory) and no less amazingly subtle and quick critical ability"
Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev
“...To find the truth, it is necessary once in your life, as far as possible, to question everything”
Rene Descartes
“...The scientific worldview, imbued with natural science and mathematics, is the greatest strength not only of the present, but also of the future”
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
“We must not accept other causes in nature other than those that are true and sufficient to explain phenomena. For nature is simple and does not luxury with unnecessary reasons.”
Isaac Newton
“Mental power will never calm down, will never stop at the known truth, but will always go forward and further, to the unknown truth!”
Giordano Bruno
“There are no limits to imagination, there are no limits to the penetration of reason, there are no limits to technical power that defeats nature.”
Alexander Evgenievich Fersman
“Science is not and will never be a finished book. Every important success brings new questions. Every development reveals, over time, new and deeper difficulties.”
Albert Einstein
“A scientist must be absolutely honest in everything. The slightest deviation from this quality is, in my opinion, a grave crime."
Konstantin Ivanovich Scriabin
“Without known independent work in any serious issue the truth cannot be found, and whoever is afraid of work deprives himself of the opportunity to find the truth.”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Working for science and for general ideas is personal happiness”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
“To conduct scientific work completely correctly through systematic experiments and accurate demonstrations requires strategic art.”
James Maxwell
“...What is the power of truth: while you try to refute it, your very attacks elevate it and give it greater value”
Galileo Galilei
“At the level of the highest creativity, the process of creation is nothing less than the deepest criticism.”
Norbert Wiener
“And what is most instructive is to recognize that even individual proposals or hypotheses, which later turned out to be incorrect, more than once gave rise to important discoveries that increased the power of the sciences, and this is because only the general, which appears to the mind as truth, i.e. hypotheses, theories, doctrines, gives that perseverance, even stubbornness in study, without which strength would not have accumulated.”
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev
“Technology has long known high price science and its influence owe its modern brilliant development"
Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovsky
“...Human nature is designed in such a way that a person can achieve his improvement only by working to improve his contemporaries, for their benefit. If a person works only for himself, he can perhaps become a famous scientist, a great sage, an excellent poet, but he can never become a truly perfect and great man.”
Karl Marx
“My faith is the belief that the progress of science will bring happiness to humanity. I believe that human mind and its highest embodiment - science - will save the human race from diseases, from hunger, from enmity, and will reduce grief in people's lives. This faith has given and continues to give me strength and helps me carry out my work.”
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
“Only those who can rise above themselves are able to understand the greatness of science.”
Ludwig Feuerbach
“It seems to us almost impossible to educate a powerful mental development, no branch of knowledge so accustoms the mind to a firm positive step, to humility before the truth, to conscientious work and, what is more important, to conscientious acceptance of the consequences as they will turn out, like the study of nature; We would begin to educate them in order to cleanse the adolescent mind of prejudices, allow him to mature on this healthy food, and then open for him, strengthened and armed, the human world, the world of history, from which the doors open directly into activity...”
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
“Scientific knowledge of one humbles the dangerous servant, the force of nature, and directs it wherever it wants. And the foundations of this knowledge are made up of facts, among which there is never a single one that science would neglect. A fact that today seems petty, isolated and unimportant, tomorrow, in connection with new discoveries, can become the seed of a new fruitful branch of knowledge.”
Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov
“Science can fulfill its true role only in the Republic of Labor”
Karl Marx
“To be able to work in a team means to be principled, to be able to always prefer the great interests of the team to your personal ones...”
Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky
“For a natural scientist, a fact, correctly observed, accurately described and thoughtfully compared, forms the basis of the work and is the key to success.”
Alexander Evgenievich Fersman
“The future of science and technology cannot be completely predicted, but its individual elements and development trends can and should be analyzed. It's better to be partially sighted than completely blind."
John Bernal
“Whoever makes science the goal of his life makes virtue his goal...”
Ludwig Feuerbach
“To find the one unchangeable and general in the changeable and particular is the main task of knowledge”
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev
“Where science is a mystery in the hands of a select few, it is inevitably tied to the profits of the ruling classes and divorced from the understanding and inspiration that comes from the needs and abilities of the people.”
John Bernal
“Science is nothing more than a reflection of reality”
Francis Bacon
“It is not the truths of science that are difficult. And the clearing of human consciousness from all hereditary rubbish..."
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
“The basis of all scientific work is the belief that the world is an orderly and knowable entity.”
Albert Einstein
“...There is no fantasy that the will and mind of people could not turn into reality”
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
“The pursuit of truth is the only activity worthy of a hero”
Giordano Bruno
“The responsibility of the scientist who made the discovery is no greater than that of others working in this field, since every discovery is the result of the work of many researchers preparing this discovery and often remaining unknown to history.”
Werner Heisenberg
“Scientists are the same dreamers and artists; they have no freedom over their ideas; they can work well, work for a long time only on what their thoughts lie towards, what their feelings lead to. In them ideas change; the most impossible, often extravagant ones appear; they swarm, swirl, merge, shimmer. And they live among such ideas and for such ideas they work.”
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
“When the new has just been born, the old always remains, for some time, stronger than it; this is always the case both in nature and in social life.”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“When a phenomenon can be described as a special case of some general principle applicable to other phenomena, then this phenomenon is said to have been explained.”
James Maxwell
“Science is the result of positive knowledge about reality, about what exists, where it comes from - natural science”
Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev
“...Facts that cannot be explained by existing theories are the most precious for science; their development should be primarily expected to develop in the near future.”
Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov
“There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"Any great man is one of a kind. In the historical procession of scientists, each of them has his own specific task and his own specific place.”
James Maxwell
“Man and science are two concave mirrors, eternally reflecting each other”
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
“...Science is increasingly influencing politics, primarily economics. And if sharp comparisons are possible, I would say the following: the relationship between science and politics is the same as between the chief of staff and the commander. Probably, in the life of the future society it is precisely by this principle that the place of science will be determined.”
Sergey Lvovich Sobolev
“The joy of seeing and understanding is the most beautiful gift of nature”
Albert Einstein
“Imagination is a great gift that has contributed so much to the development of mankind...”
Karl Marx
“Science, as something existing and complete, is the most objective and impersonal of all that is known to man.”
Albert Einstein
“In any field of human knowledge there is an abyss of poetry”
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
“It is impossible to foresee the limits of scientific knowledge and prediction”
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev
“A scientist without talent is like that poor mullah who cut up and ate the Koran, thinking to be filled with the spirit of Mohammed”
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
“Genius is the highest ability to concentrate attention on the subject being studied”
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
“A serious attitude towards amateurism and mechanical pursuit of science turns into pedantry”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
"Install scientific theory- this is a serious scientific merit; predicting a fact based on a ready-made theory is something that is available to every chemist and requires several hours of time; But actual proof or refutation of such a prediction will require months, sometimes years of physical and mental effort.”
Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov
“The Soviet scientist cannot forget that he works for the people and that scientific truth is not an end in itself, but the right path to the rise of culture, to mastering the forces of nature for the benefit of the people. Therefore, by acquiring knowledge, a scientist brings it to his people, so he trains new personnel and strives to ensure that his students know more and are able to work better than him.”
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe
“Experiment never deceives, but our judgments do.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Belief in the existence of an external world independent of the perceiving subject. It lies at the basis of all natural science."
Albert Einstein
“Nothing gives confidence except the truth. But nothing other than a sincere search for truth gives peace to our consciousness.”
Blaise Pascal
“The human mind has discovered many strange things in nature and will discover even more, thereby increasing its power over it...”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Over the past fifty years, scientific research has gone from being a luxury to necessary condition existence"
John Bernal
“Love of science is love of truth, therefore honesty is the basic virtue of a scientist”
Ludwig Feuerbach
“Today science is opening up interstellar spaces to humanity, and now we can foresee what it will be able to accomplish in the future in this area.”
Frederic Joliot-Curie
“...The role of the sciences is service, they constitute a means to achieve the good”
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev
“If society has a technical need, then it moves science forward more than a dozen universities”
Friedrich Engels
“...The method is the very first, basic thing... The whole seriousness of the research depends on the method, on the method of action. It's all about good method… The method holds the fate of the research in its hands.”
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
“To be productive in science, I first need to be able to exchange ideas with other scientists.”
Norbert Wiener
“...The history of ideas is the history of change and, therefore, the struggle of ideas”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
"Wisdom is the daughter of experience"
Leonardo da Vinci
“I firmly believe that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war.”
Louis Pasteur
"Science is power!"
Francis Bacon
“...Only through theory, knowledge, folded into a coherent whole, becomes scientific knowledge; the harmonious combination of factual knowledge constitutes science. But no matter how perfect the theory is, it is only an approximation to the truth.”
Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov
“The true assessment of a person is to what extent and in what sense he has been able to achieve liberation from his self.”
Albert Einstein
“Science requires the whole person, without ulterior motives, with a willingness to give everything and, as a reward, to receive the heavy cross of sober knowledge”
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
“...Human consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but also creates it”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Ignorance is the best science in the world, it comes without difficulty and does not sadden the soul”
Giordano Bruno
“At every stage of human development we encounter the same tendency to exaggerate the significance of results already obtained and with the belief that these results are “the key to understanding all the secrets of the universe””
Paul Langevin
“A scientist should be a person who is willing to listen to any proposal, but determines for himself whether it is true. External signs phenomena should not bind the scientist’s judgments, he should not have a favorite hypothesis, he must be outside the schools and not have authorities. He should be respectful not to individuals, but to objects. If hard work is added to these qualities, then he can hope to lift the veil in the temple of nature."
Michael Faraday
“...The human mind developed in accordance with how man learned to change nature”
Friedrich Engels
“Science is the best, strongest, brightest support in life, whatever its vicissitudes”
Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev
“Death is not important. If others think like me, they will find the paths I have laid out. So I exist"
Frederic Joliot-Curie
“...A one-sided specialist is either a crude empiricist or a street charlatan”
Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov
“In the process of scientific work, two things are important: to see the big in the small and the small in the big.”
Sergey Lvovich Sobolev
“The form of development of natural science, insofar as it thinks, is a hypothesis”
Friedrich Engels
“Of all the hypotheses... choose the one that does not interfere with further thinking about the things being studied”
James Maxwell
“People have no force more powerful and victorious than science”
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky
"…Without human emotions there has never been, is not and cannot be a human search for truth.”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“I considered it my duty to devote my life equally to science and justice.”
Paul Langevin
“The virtue of a good method is that it equalizes abilities; she gives it to everyone light remedy and true"
Francis Bacon
“Every beginning is difficult - this truth is true for every science”
Karl Marx
“...It is precisely because I know what science can give to the world that I will continue my efforts to make it serve the happiness of people.”
Frederic Joliot-Curie
: In science, you need to repeat lessons in order to remember them well; In morality, one must remember mistakes well so as not to repeat them.