The vast majority of scientists devote a large part of their efforts to writing articles which are never read.

The contemporary practices of scientific research, as well as the scientific efforts that the great books record, show beyond doubt that the method of controlled experiment under artificial conditions is not the only method used by men who regard themselves and are regarded as scientists. ... as the work of astronomers, biologists, and social scientists reveals, experiment in the strict sense is not always possible.

Scientists are more profitably occupied at the bench that in the library

Scientists are not known for the graces of courtesy and tact when commenting on the work of others.

People don't like to read papers — they like to read titles.

Most scientists today are devoid of ideas, full of fear, intent on producing some paltry result so that they can add to the flood of inane papers that now constitutes "scientific progress" in many areas.

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

It is much more meaningful and enjoyable to read the scientific literature about experiments you are involved in yourself than to read about science in the abstract.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

If you were an artist or novelist, or a poet or somebody like that, nobody would think it odd if you worked in your own home. In science there's none of this at all. I'm almost the only independent scientist in Britain. Everybody else works in large institutions, universities, or industrial labs. Why should one expect scientists to work that way?

Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something.

In science... the ultimate judges are not experts but experiments.

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.