Famous quotes by Scientists

"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

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done"

Marie Curie, Scientist

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained"

Marie Curie, 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

"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves"

Walter Gilbert, Scientist

"I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"When I was young, my father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty, and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

"It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"For the first half of geological time, our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond"

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

"Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming"

Niklaus Wirth, Scientist

"A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another, and this causes the breath to flow"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings"

Niklaus Wirth, Scientist

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