Creative Science Quotes

For [Karl] Marx, science was a creative, historic and revolutionary force.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.

Whatever happens to science in schools, there's something peculiar going on if students don't see it as creative.

If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out and that its impact would have been far less. For this sort of reason Stent had argued that a scientific discovery is more akin to a work of art than is generally admitted. Style, he argues, is as important as content. I am not completely convinced by this argument, at least in this case.

It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.

A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.

I think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist to see things in a scientific perspective.

As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. It will be vigorously creative in pure science where its contributions will compare with those of the universities...

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.