Famous quotes by Scientists

"Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age"

Alfred Nobel, Scientist

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied"

Alfred Nobel, Scientist

"Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing"

Konrad Lorenz, Scientist

"I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results"

Alfred Nobel, Scientist

"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"Walking is man's best medicine"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric"

Louis Pasteur, Scientist

"If you love it enough, anything will talk with you"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

"The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it"

Abdus Salam, Scientist

"Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity"

Abdus Salam, Scientist

"Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked"

Abdus Salam, Scientist

"In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles"

Abdus Salam, Scientist

"From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible"

Abdus Salam, Scientist

"People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

"Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

"Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

"Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves"

Galileo Galilei, Scientist

"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go"

Galileo Galilei, Scientist

"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so"

Galileo Galilei, Scientist

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them"

Galileo Galilei, Scientist

"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact"

Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist

"Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue"

Jim Fowler, Scientist

"I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation"

Thomas Sydenham, Scientist

"Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

"Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

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