„I am among those who think that science has great beauty.“
Marie Curie8
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„Among the people who knew a great deal about the hydrogen bomb, I was the only advocate of it. And that is, I think, my contribution.“
— Edward Teller Hungarian-American nuclear physicist 1908 - 2003
Context: At the end of the war, most people wanted to stop. I didn't. Because here was more knowledge. And in the coming uncertain period, with a dangerous man like Stalin around, and our incomplete knowledge, I felt that more knowledge is necessary. Among the people who knew a great deal about the hydrogen bomb, I was the only advocate of it. And that is, I think, my contribution. Not that I invented it, others would have — and others in the Soviet Union did. But I was the one person who put knowledge, and the availability of knowledge, above everything else.
On the creation of the hydrogen bomb, in Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
„Those who think that science is ethically neutral confuse the findings of science, which are, with the activity of science, which is not.“
— Jacob Bronowski Polish-born British mathematician 1908 - 1974
Science and Human Values (1956, 1965), Context: Tolerance among scientists cannot be based on indifference, it must be based on respect. Respect as a personal value implies, in any society, the public acknowledgements of justice and of due honor. These are values which to the layman seem most remote from any abstract study. Justice, honor, the respect of man for man: What, he asks, have these human values to do with science? [... ]
Those who think that science is ethically neutral confuse the findings of science, which are, with the activity of science, which is not.
Part 3: "The Sense of Human Dignity", §6 (p. 63–64)
„I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.“
— Werner Herzog German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director 1942
„Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.“
— Rachel Carson American marine biologist and conservationist 1907 - 1964
The Sense of Wonder (1965), Context: Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
„The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal themselves in all their beauty only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.“
— Carl Friedrich Gauss German mathematician and physical scientist 1777 - 1855
Context: The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal themselves in all their beauty only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. But when a person of that sex, that, because of our mores and our prejudices, has to encounter infinitely more obstacles and difficulties than men in familiarizing herself with these thorny research problems, nevertheless succeeds in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating their most obscure parts, she must without doubt have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius.
Letter to Sophie Germain (30 April 1807) ([...]; les charmes enchanteurs de cette sublime science ne se décèlent dans toute leur beauté qu'à ceux qui ont le courage de l'approfondir. Mais lorsqu'une personne de ce sexe, qui, par nos meurs [sic] et par nos préjugés, doit rencontrer infiniment plus d'obstacles et de difficultés, que les hommes, à se familiariser avec ces recherches épineuses, sait néanmoins franchir ces entraves et pénétrer ce qu'elles ont de plus caché, il faut sans doute, qu'elle ait le plus noble courage, des talents tout à fait extraordinaires, le génie superieur.)
„Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.“
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
1930s, "My Credo", a speech to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin (Autumn 1932), as published in Einstein: A Life in Science (1994) by Michael White and John Gribbin, p. 262.
„Among creations I am the beginning, the middle, and also the end, O Arjuna, I am the science of the Self, and I am the logic of all arguments. (Bhagavad Gita, Ch X, verse 32)“
— Baba Hari Dass master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition 1923
Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Ch. VII-XII, 2014
„On the plane home I remember thinking that I am who I am because I have faith in myself, and it has always been the possibility of emotionally rewarding the experiences that has encouraged me to gamble on myself; those experiences have made all that I do worthwhile.“
— Yanni Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer 1954
„The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.“
— Thomas Henry Huxley English biologist and comparative anatomist 1825 - 1895
1870s, Presidential Address at the British Association, "Biogenesis and abiogenesis" (1870) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE8/B-Ab.html; later published in Collected Essays, Vol. 8, p. 229
„I am not an atheist — I think I'm happily confused and a work in progress; I'm sort of more agnostic. I do think that science has become the lens through which we see the world, more and more.“
— Dan Brown American author 1964
"Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown Says He Has Abandoned Christianity, but Is Not an Atheist" The Christian Post (24 Oct 2017) https://www.christianpost.com/news/da-vinci-code-author-dan-brown-says-he-has-abandoned-christianity-but-is-not-an-atheist-204122
„Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.“
— Isaac Asimov American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction and popular … 1920 - 1992
General sources, As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) edited by Geoff Tibballs, p. 299
„Ours is assuredly the most ridiculous, the most absurd and the most bloody religion which has ever infected this world.Your Majesty will do the human race an eternal service by extirpating this infamous superstition, I do not say among the rabble, who are not worthy of being enlightened and who are apt for every yoke; I say among honest people, among men who think, among those who wish to think. … My one regret in dying is that I cannot aid you in this noble enterprise, the finest and most respectable which the human mind can point out.“
— Voltaire French writer, historian, and philosopher 1694 - 1778
Citas, La nôtre [religion] est sans contredit la plus ridicule, la plus absurde, et la plus sanguinaire qui ait jamais infecté le monde.<p>Votre Majesté rendra un service éternel au genre humain en détruisant cette infâme superstition, je ne dis pas chez la canaille, qui n’est pas digne d’être éclairée, et à laquelle tous les jougs sont propres; je dis chez les honnêtes gens, chez les hommes qui pensent, chez ceux qui veulent penser... Je ne m’afflige de toucher à la mort que par mon profond regret de ne vous pas seconder dans cette noble entreprise, la plus belle et la plus respectable qui puisse signaler l’esprit humain.
Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), transl. Richard Aldington, letter 156 from Voltaire to Frederick II of Prussia, 5 January 1767 http://perso.orange.fr/dboudin/VOLTAIRE/45/1767/6651.html
Often misquoted as "Christianity is...", while in the context, Voltaire was referring specifically to Catholicism.
