There is no profession or calling whose members can feel a greater or deeper conviction of duty of lasting value to be done.
Winston Churchill · On the medical profession, 1947
Science quotes from Galileo and Newton to Einstein, Feynman and Curie, on discovery, doubt and the joy of understanding, each checked to its source.
Winston Churchill · On the medical profession, 1947
Albert Einstein · Said to George Sylvester Viereck in an interview published in The Saturday Evening Post on 26 October 1929.
Archimedes · The source reads: “Eureka! [I've got it!]”
Albert Einstein · To Hermann Broch, 2 September 1945.
Albert Einstein · To Heinrich Zangger, 1 June 1919.
Winston Churchill · Churchill on logic.
Albert Einstein · The source reads: “Without the belief that it is possible to grasp reality with our theoretical constructions, without the belief in the inner harmony of our world, there could be no science. This belief is and always will remain the fundamental motive for all scientific creation.” · From The Evolution of Physics, written with Leopold Infeld, 1938.
Virgil · From the Georgics, in praise of the philosopher.
Winston Churchill · University of Oslo, 12 May 1948
Albert Einstein · From his Autobiographical Notes, written in 1946.
Albert Einstein · From Science, Philosophy and Religion, 1940.
Albert Einstein · The source reads: “I’ve completely solved the problem. My solution was to analyze the concept of time. Time cannot be absolutely defined, and there is an inseparable relation between time and signal velocity.” · To Michele Besso in May 1905, on the idea behind special relativity.
Albert Einstein · From Science and Dictatorship, 1930.
Albert Einstein · As recalled by his assistant Ernst Straus.
Archimedes · With reference to a lever, in Pappus 'Synagoge' bk. 8, sect. 19, proposition 10.
Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 25 April 1918
Neil Armstrong · The source reads: “Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
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