Famous quotes by Scientists

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

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it"

Will Wright, Scientist

"Question everything"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing"

Will Wright, Scientist

"As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation"

Hans Selye, Scientist

"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one"

Hans Selye, Scientist

"Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older"

Hans Selye, Scientist

"There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing"

Marvin Minsky, Scientist

"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine"

William Osler, Scientist

"During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts"

David Bohm, Scientist

"In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better"

John B. S. Haldane, Scientist

"We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston"

Marvin Minsky, Scientist

"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult"

John B. S. Haldane, Scientist

"Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution"

Marvin Minsky, Scientist

"The future is today"

William Osler, Scientist

"The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases"

William Osler, Scientist

"The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget"

William Osler, Scientist

"Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult"

Richard Stallman, Scientist

"The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals"

William Osler, Scientist

"Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine"

John B. S. Haldane, Scientist

"Thought is constantly creating problems that way, and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them, it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates"

David Bohm, Scientist

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