Famous quotes by Scientists

"Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and I was lucky enough to go along"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected"

Charles Francis Richter, Scientist

"In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them"

Charles Francis Richter, Scientist

"Through art and science in their broadest senses, it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life, and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

"The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated"

Niklaus Wirth, Scientist

"Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next"

Jonas Salk, Scientist

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality"

Jonas Salk, Scientist

"What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information"

John Warnock, Scientist

"There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government"

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

"If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works"

Jamie Zawinski, Scientist

"On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology"

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

"The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time"

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

"We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right but irrelevant"

Manfred Eigen, Scientist

"Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'!"

Max Planck, Scientist

"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation"

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly"

Linus Pauling, Scientist

"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas"

Linus Pauling, Scientist

"Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight, we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms"

Karl Landsteiner, Scientist

"The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does"

Will Wright, Scientist

"You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects"

James Lind, Scientist

"It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges"

James Lind, Scientist

"People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking"

Richard Stallman, Scientist

"Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful"

Bjarne Stroustrup, Scientist

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