Experimenters Are The Shock Troops Of Science.

A Scientist Is Happy, Not In Resting On His Attainments But In The Steady Acquisition Of Fresh Knowledge.

New Scientific Ideas Never Spring From A Communal Body, However Organized, But Rather From The Head Of An Individually Inspired Researcher Who Struggles With His Problems In Lonely Thought And Unites All His Thought On One Single Point Which Is His Whole World For The Moment.

An Important Scientific Innovation Rarely Makes Its Way By Gradually Winning Over And Converting Its Opponents: What Does Happen Is That The Opponents Gradually Die Out.

An Indispensable Hypothesis, Even Though Still Far From Being A Guarantee Of Success, Is However The Pursuit Of A Specific Aim, Whose Lighted Beacon, Even By Initial Failures, Is Not Betrayed.

The Spectral Density Of Black Body Radiation ... Represents Something Absolute, And Since The Search For The Absolutes Has Always Appeared To Me To Be The Highest Form Of Research, I Applied Myself Vigorously To Its Solution.