| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1664 |
| AUTHOR: | Maria Montessori (1870–1952) |
| QUOTATION: | What is a scientist?… We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | MARIA MONTESSORI, The Montessori Method, trans. Anne E. George, p. 8 (1964). |
| SUBJECTS: | Science |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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