Famous quotes by Scientists

"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless, one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams"

Jonas Salk, Scientist

"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"I think Linux is a great thing because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot"

Jamie Zawinski, Scientist

"If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

"When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature"

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it"

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

"Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created"

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

"We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration"

Burt Rutan, Scientist

"Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory"

Manfred Eigen, Scientist

"The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"Market segmentation s a natural result of the vast differences among people"

Donald Norman, Scientist

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