In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.
In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature.