top of page
"Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Fact quotes

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."

"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."

"A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection."

"In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part."
Fact,

"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
Explore more quotes by Martin Fleischmann

"At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past."

"American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been."

"I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else."

"I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium."

"Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic."

"I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid."

"If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature."

"I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars."
bottom of page