Scientist Quotes: Inspirations from Brilliant Minds (Page 5)

"The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs"

Thomas Sydenham, Scientist

"Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout"

Thomas Sydenham, Scientist

"The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one"

Hans Selye, Scientist

"Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older"

Hans Selye, Scientist

"Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it"

Hans Selye, Scientist

"Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness"

Max Planck, Scientist

"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"If you ask almost any of them, 'Do you stand behind your theory? Is this the answer?' I think almost everyone would say, 'No, no, no. I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities.' We really don't know what's going on"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young"

Konrad Lorenz, Scientist

"Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure"

Felix Bloch, Scientist

"Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is"

Alan Kay, Scientist

"One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it"

Martin Fleischmann, Scientist

"The mercantile business did not suit me"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'"

Charles Francis Richter, Scientist

"When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks"

Robert T. Bakker, Scientist

"Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare"

Donald Johanson, Scientist

"Further, science is a collaborative effort"

John Bardeen, Scientist

"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone"

John Bardeen, Scientist

"Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment"

Steven Hatfill, Scientist

"The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use"

Nicholas Culpeper, Scientist

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