Famous quotes by Scientists

"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way"

Marvin Minsky, Scientist

"No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing, but most of the time, we aren't either"

Marvin Minsky, Scientist

"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all"

William Osler, Scientist

"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained"

David Bohm, Scientist

"My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc"

David Bohm, Scientist

"I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world"

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"Study nature, not books"

Louis Agassiz, Scientist

"All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected"

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'"

Grace Hopper, Scientist

"It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole"

Dmitri Mendeleev, Scientist

"It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess"

Luc Montagnier, Scientist

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing"

Wernher von Braun, Scientist

"It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet"

Wernher von Braun, Scientist

"I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution"

Wernher von Braun, Scientist

"All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown"

William Harvey, Scientist

"The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research"

Owen Chamberlain, Scientist

"The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset"

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Scientist

"Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace"

Dennis Ritchie, Scientist

"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos"

Stephen Jay Gould, Scientist

"A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary"

Jef Raskin, Scientist

"I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it"

Erwin Schrodinger, Scientist

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