There is something about a good quote that just makes you feel inspired. Maybe it’s the way the words are put together, or maybe it’s the wisdom of the person behind them. Whatever it is, quotes can be a great way to get motivated and fired up about your work.
In this blog post, we’ve compiled some of our favorite quotes from scientists. We hope they will inspire you to keep working hard and making progress on your entrepreneurial journey.

1. The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. — Marshall Mcluhan
2. Laboratory scientists use formaldehyde as a disinfectant or preservative. They don’t fucking drink it. — Rory Freedman, Skinny Bitch
3. If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. — Neil Degrasse Tyson
4. Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. — Richard Feynman
5. You are the evil scientist of your desires.–Ignacio Rivera — Tristan Taormino, The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge
6. My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist. — Robin Williams
7. Government scientists are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them. — Steven Magee
8. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ. — Warren Buffett
9. How is it that food STILL contains calories that make you gain weight in the 21st CENTURY?! It’s like scientists aren’t even trying! — Tanya Masse
10. You don’t need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android phone. — Steve Ballmer
11. That is why they have poets–to classify all the degrees of love. It is for scientists to classify the maladies arising from the want of it. — Sarah Ruhl, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play
12. I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met. — Thomas Jefferson
13. A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he’s often sure he can find one. And that’s a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy. — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
14. I’m raw power & energy. And my wife is like the only scientist who can harness and direct it properly. I always thank Jah for her. (Proverbs 31:10) — Sotero M Lopez II
15. Britain has trend–setting fashion, ground–breaking scientists, and innovative technology companies. It is also a welcome home for investors. — Princess Beatrice of York
16. If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It’s one way to answer the question, ‘What is the meaning of life?’ I feel music answers it better. — Paula Cole
17. Most scientists I know don’t care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists. — Steven Weinberg
18. In my grandfather’s lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process. — Tammy Baldwin
19. If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? — Steven Wright
20. Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life. — Rachel Carson
21. You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you’re raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple. — Norman Lear
22. Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired? — Mira Bartok, The Memory Palace
23. Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not–a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist–possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world. — Yehuda Amichai
24. No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study. — Phillip E. Johnson
25. I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child. — Walter Mosley
26. The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not. — A.E. Samaan
27. Using e–mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world. — Stephen Hawking
28. I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. — Robert Jarvik
29. What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists. — Paul Wellstone
30. Well, I mean, I’m still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist. — Mayim Bialik
31. You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you’re raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple. — Norman Lear
32. A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal truth. An artist can’t hide behind the truth. He can’t hide anywhere. — Ursula K. Le Guin
33. In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas–and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed. — Werner Heisenberg
34. There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x–ray. — Ray Davies
35. So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don’t blab unnecessarily. — Peter Agre
36. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. — Nikola Tesla
37. There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality. — Sam Harris
38. Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas. — Max Planck
39. My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist. — Robin Williams
40. If global cooling will come soon–scientists will lose trust. — Shigenori Maruyama
41. Political scientists and professors are the new clergy — the clergy of oppression.
42. If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys. — Sally Ride
43. The scientist is more religious than the poet because his beliefs rests in faith for a reality that is intangible. — VD.
44. The scientist is more religious than the poet because his beliefs rests in faith for a reality that is intangible. — VD.
45. The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination. — Max Planck
46. I’m a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist. — Steven Hatfill
47. You going to be a scientist when you grow up?’ That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got. — Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
48. Using e–mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world. — Stephen Hawking
49. Good scientists will fight the system rather than learn to work with the system. — Richard Hamming
50. Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination. — Ray Bradbury