Scientists & Technologists

"All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections."

— Arthur Aufderheide

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

— Stephen Hawking

"The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves."

— Albert Einstein

"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value"

— Albert Einstein

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

— Albert Einstein

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things."

— Albert Einstein

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else."

— Albert Einstein

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of imagination has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing absolute knowledge"

— Albert Einstein

"To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal."

— A.P.J Abdul Kalam

"All great achievements in science start from intuitive knowledge, namely, in axioms, from which deductions are then made. ' Intuition is the necessary condition for the discovery of such axioms."

— Albert Einstein

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

— Albert Einstein

"Be curious. Read'widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity."

— Aaron Swartz

"Logic will get you from A-Z. Imagination will take you everywhere."

— Albert Einstein

"Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better."

— Albert Einstein

"Growth mind-set is about seeing things in a new way changing from a judge-and-be-judged framework to a learn-and-help-learn framework."

— Carol Dweck

"It is a strange thing to be so widely known, and yet to be so lonely."

— Albert Einstein

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

— Albert Szent Gyorgui, Nobel Prize winner

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."

— Albert Einstein

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures came from people who have the habit of making excuses."

— George Washington Carver

"A man is what he makes of himself."

— Alexander Graham Bell

"Logic will get you from A to B, imagination will take you everywhere."

— Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfils the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form."

— Albert Einstein

"It is also vital to a valuable education that independent critical thinking be developed in the young human being, a development that is greatly jeopardized by overburdening with too much and too varied subjects. Overburdening necessarily leads to superficiality."

— Albert Einstein

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

— Stephen Hawking

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

— Alan Kay

"I might not be more skilled than other Scientists & Technologists, but I have the persistence of a mule."

— Albert Einstein

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

— Albert Einstein

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

— Albert Einstein

"One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life."

— Alexander Bogomoletz

"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

— Albert Einstein

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

— Albert Einstein

"I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi armed with the moneybags of Carnegie?"

— Albert Einstein

"Knowledge is necessary too. A child with great intuition could not grow up to become something worthwhile in life without some knowledge. However there comes a point in everyone's life where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without knowing precisely how."

— Albert Einstein

"Those with the growth mind-set found setbacks motivating. They're informative. They're a wake-up call."

— Carol Dweck

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

— Albert Einstein

"Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

— Albert Einstein

"Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research."

— Albert Einstein

"Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavour and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us."

— Albert Einstein

"I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer."

— Stephen Hawking

"We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves."

— Marie Curie

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

— Albert Einstein

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

— Albert Einstein

"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

— Albert Einstein

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

— Albert Einstein

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. 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. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."

— Albert Einstein

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

— Albert Einstein

"A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing."

— Albert Einstein

"Effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment."

— Carol Dweck

"Failure is a problem to be faced, dealt with, and learned from."

— Carol Dweck

"Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

— Albert Einstein

"The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mind-set."

— Carol Dweck

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

— Carol Dweck

"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."

— Stephen Hawking

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

— Albert Einstein

"If I can't picture it, I can't understand it"

— Albert Einstein

"The important thing is not to stop questioning, curiosity has its own reason for existing."

— Albert Einstein

"Developing emotional intelligence is one way to protect yourself from damaging relationships. Emotional intelligence is a science that has been studied and researched for over a decade. According to the theories, mutual respect and effective communication are key."

— Liz Miller

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom."

— Albert Einstein

"The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size."

— Albert Einstein

"Real self-confidence is not reflected in a title, an expensive suit, a fancy car, or a series of acquisitions. It is reflected in your mind-set: your readiness to grow."

— Carol Dweck

"My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feelings."

— Albert Einstein

"I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research."

— Albert Einstein

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual."

— Albert Einstein

"With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon."

— Albert Einstein, To Heinrich Zangger, December 24 1919