Motivational Quotes by Scientists

Not every day has to be serious and nerdy. Here are ten motivational quotes by famous scientists to get your Monday going:

"Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled."

William Ramsay, 1852 to 1916 - Chemist

"Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics."

J. B. S. Haldane, 1892 to 1964 - Biologist

"Valid criticism does you a favor."
 Carl Sagan, 1934 to 1996 - Astronomer

We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.

Stephen Jay Gould, 1941 to 2002 - Paleontologist

"Things are as they are because they were as they were."

Thomas Gold, 1920 to present - Astrophysicist

"Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think"

Jacob Bronowski, 1908 to 1974 - Mathematician, Biologist

"Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth."

Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 to 1727 - Physicist, Mathematician

"I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions, and into actions which bring results."

Florence Nightingale, 1820 to 1910 - Nurse, Statistician

"Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality."

Albert Einstein, 1859 to 1955 - Phycisist

"Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more the need there is for wit"

Sigmund Freud, 1856 to 1939 - Psychiatrist, Psychologist

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