Ernest Lawrence Quotes

Science knows only one commandment—contribute to science.

Science is the cause. Her feeble groping fingers lifted here and there, often trampled underfoot, often frozen in isolation, have now become a vast organized, united, class-conscious army marching forward upon all the fronts toward objectives none may measure or define.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

I'm not just a scientist.

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Our security and independence require that more young people devote themselves to science and research.

Modern civilization depends on science …

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.

Never bet against science!