“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”

— Ray Bradbury

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible." by Ray Bradbury?

Ray Bradbury photo

Ray Bradbury401

American writer 1920–2012

Related quotes

“Romance requires trust—and the deeper the trust, the deeper the possibility for romance.”

Jordan Peterson book Beyond Order

Source: Books, Beyond Order (2021), p. 271

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Lord Goring, Act III
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)

“We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from "real" work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly funded science should be open science.”

Michael Nielsen (1974) Australian and Canadian physicist and writer (b.1974)

The New Einsteins Will Be Scientists Who Share https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204644504576653573191370088. In The Wall Street Journal. October 29, 2011.

“Humanism is a great idea that opens up colossal possibilities and abilities of rationalism.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

“A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.”

Freeman Dyson (1923) theoretical physicist and mathematician

Pt. 1, Ch. 10
Disturbing the Universe (1979)

“Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory. The ideas must later take the mathematical form of a quantitative theory, to make possible the comparison with experiment.”

Albert Einstein book The Evolution of Physics

The Evolution of Physics (1938) (co-written with Leopold Infeld)
1930s

“At the top of the ladder is awareness, or pure experience - the edge of yourself, and possibly the beginning of God.”

Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”

David Ogilvy (1911–1999) Advertising executive

“You can be a doctor and I’ll still help you. You can be an engineer and I can help you. You can be a scientist and I’ll help you, whoever you are because I am not helping anything else. I am helping you! Peace on this Earth doesn’t begin by great ideas. Peace on Earth begins with you.”

Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader

Kissimmee, Florida, November 10, 1978
1970s

Related topics