Famous quotes by Scientists

"As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

"The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs"

W. Edwards Deming, Scientist

W. Edwards Deming

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people"

Carl Sagan, Scientist

Carl Sagan

"I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself, she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

Frederick Sanger

"Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding"

Burt Rutan, Scientist

"Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

"The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

Thomas Huxley

"Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo"

Desmond Morris, Scientist

Desmond Morris

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

Isaac Asimov

"There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people, we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people, we use it for good purposes"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

Herbert Simon

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

Donald Knuth

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

K. Eric Drexler

"Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"Observe which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling, and you are likely to have identified the side with the weaker argument, and they know it"

Charles R. Anderson, Scientist

"I do not believe in using women in combat because females are too fierce"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

"If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

Guido van Rossum

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

Isaac Asimov

"I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred"

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Scientist

Abdul Qadeer Khan

"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man, with all his noble qualities, still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

Charles Darwin

"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works"

Alan Perlis, Scientist

Alan Perlis

"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on"

Maxwell Maltz, Scientist

Maxwell Maltz

"If you make friends with yourself, you will never be alone"

Maxwell Maltz, Scientist

Maxwell Maltz

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions"

Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist

"Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence"

Paracelsus, Scientist

Paracelsus

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more"

Jonas Salk, Scientist

"The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice"

Karl Landsteiner, Scientist

Karl Landsteiner

"If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years"

Robert Ballard, Scientist

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