Famous quotes by Scientists

"As can be seen, even by this limited number of examples, proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions"

Michael Behe, Scientist

"The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids"

Michael Behe, Scientist

"The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say"

Barbara McClintock, Scientist

"I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them"

Barbara McClintock, Scientist

"Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities"

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Scientist

"Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival"

Stephen Jay Gould, Scientist

"Something unknown is doing, we don't know what"

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

"If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation"

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

"A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion"

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Scientist

"Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion"

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Scientist

"Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"I much prefer the modern world"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction"

Stephen Jay Gould, Scientist

"Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense"

Stephen Jay Gould, Scientist

"A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize"

George Wald, Scientist

"A scientist should be the happiest of men"

George Wald, Scientist

"A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know"

George Wald, Scientist

"You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years"

George Wald, Scientist

"Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime"

George Wald, Scientist

"The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist"

Erwin Schrodinger, Scientist

"An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish"

Erwin Schrodinger, Scientist

"Oh, leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight"

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum"

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists"

Erwin Schrodinger, Scientist

"We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'"

Arthur Eddington, Scientist

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