Famous quotes by Scientists

"A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is"

Willard Gaylin, Scientist

"The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold"

Edward Bach, Scientist

"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in"

Peter Medawar, Scientist

"I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress"

Wen Ho Lee, Scientist

"The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe"

Philip Warren Anderson, Scientist

"You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay"

William Turner, Scientist

"A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures"

Ben Shneiderman, Scientist

"I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity"

Robert Winston, Scientist

"In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs"

Francis Darwin, Scientist

"Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable"

Rupert Sheldrake, Scientist

"Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak"

Paul D. Boyer, Scientist

"It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined"

Gilbert White, Scientist

"Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that"

Steven Chu, Scientist

"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them"

Hugh Miller, Scientist

"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World"

Daniel Nathans, Scientist

"The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect"

Rene Dubos, Scientist

"We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority"

Thomas Huxley, 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

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