Famous quotes by Scientists

"One man's constant is another man's variable"

Alan Perlis, Scientist

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known"

Carl Sagan, Scientist

"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology"

Carl Sagan, Scientist

"The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen"

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Scientist

"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought"

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Scientist

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought"

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Scientist

"A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure"

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Scientist

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind"

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Scientist

"The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught"

Lord Kelvin, Scientist

"Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it"

Lord Kelvin, Scientist

"We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness"

Maxwell Maltz, Scientist

"I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we"

Konrad Lorenz, Scientist

"We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war"

Konrad Lorenz, Scientist

"Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

"Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

"One finds limits by pushing them"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

"Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"To do nothing is also a good remedy"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation, because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence"

Louis Pasteur, Scientist

"It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes"

Louis Pasteur, Scientist

"In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind"

Louis Pasteur, Scientist

"Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism"

Louis Pasteur, Scientist

"Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind"

Louis Pasteur, Scientist

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