Famous quotes by Scientists

"At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years"

Wietse Venema, Scientist

"To be a good draftsman was, to me, a blessing"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago"

Donald Johanson, Scientist

"I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography, but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

"Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy"

Steven Weinberg, Scientist

"Women will change the corporation more than we expect"

Anita Borg, Scientist

"We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives"

Anita Borg, Scientist

"Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive"

Henry W. Kendall, Scientist

"When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins"

Donald Johanson, Scientist

"It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the highest scientific distinction that there is today has been awarded for those on catalysis"

Wilhelm Ostwald, Scientist

"In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely"

Wilhelm Ostwald, Scientist

"Consistency beats intensity, especially for building habits that last"

Andrew Huberman, 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

"Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method"

Carl D. Anderson, Scientist

"The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction"

Michael Faraday, Scientist

"Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons"

Mohamed ElBaradei, Scientist

"Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace"

Frederick W. Taylor, Scientist

"If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled"

Elizabeth Blackwell, Scientist

"In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA"

Gregory Bateson, Scientist

"I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself, one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world"

Tycho Brahe, Scientist

"And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of"

Fritz Zwicky, Scientist

"It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature"

Francis Crick, Scientist

"Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error"

Benjamin Rush, Scientist

"Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes"

David Deutsch, Scientist

"I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"Two years' work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it"

Thomas Hunt Morgan, Scientist

"Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know"

Mark Oliphant, Scientist

"Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity"

Mary Leakey, Scientist

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