Famous quotes by Scientists

"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

"This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something, and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it"

David Bohm, Scientist

"People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language"

Bjarne Stroustrup, Scientist

"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God"

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

"We grow in time to trust the future for our answers"

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties"

Dmitri Mendeleev, Scientist

"Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens"

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth"

Louis Agassiz, Scientist

"The information is in the people, not in your head"

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

"We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture"

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

"The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted"

Gregor Mendel, Scientist

"No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking"

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!"

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way"

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules"

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences"

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the Great Pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers"

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked"

Michael Behe, Scientist

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