Famous quotes by Scientists

"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

"When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

"There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

"I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

"I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

"If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

"There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in"

Galileo Galilei, Scientist

"Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not"

Galileo Galilei, Scientist

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual"

Galileo Galilei, Scientist

"Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"Civilization in its present form hasn't got long"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions"

Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist

"Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation"

Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist

"The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry"

Jim Fowler, Scientist

"For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple"

Thomas Sydenham, Scientist

"I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School"

Jim Fowler, Scientist

"A man is as old as his arteries"

Thomas Sydenham, Scientist

"Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

"Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

"During the past three years, spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

"Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

"An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem"

John Tukey, Scientist

"I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

"A list is only as strong as its weakest link"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

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