Famous quotes by Scientists

"Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

Small: Isaac Asimov

"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

Small: Carl Sagan

"When in doubt, use brute force"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

Small: Ken Thompson

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

Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist

"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

Small: K. Eric Drexler

"The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought"

Walter Gilbert, Scientist

"Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

Small: Guido van Rossum

"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

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

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Small: Margaret Mead

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

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

Small: Isaac Asimov

"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing"

W. Edwards Deming, Scientist

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

Maxwell Maltz, Scientist

Small: Maxwell Maltz

"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

"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

Small: Charles Darwin

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

W. Edwards Deming, Scientist

"Quality is everyone's responsibility"

W. Edwards Deming, Scientist

"Where there is no vision, there is no hope"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

"Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing"

Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist

"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents"

William Osler, Scientist

"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

"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware"

Alan Kay, Scientist

Small: Alan Kay

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

Jonas Salk, Scientist

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

Burt Rutan, Scientist

"The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

Small: Thomas Huxley

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

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Small: Margaret Mead

"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

Small: Isaac Asimov

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

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

Small: Isaac Asimov

"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less"

Marie Curie, Scientist

Small: Marie Curie

"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state"

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

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