Famous quotes by Scientists

"Theories pass. The frog remains"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

"Motivation is not a trait; it's a state, and dopamine is a major driver of that state"

Andrew Huberman, Scientist

"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it"

Mary Catherine Bateson, Scientist

"Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving"

Mary Catherine Bateson, Scientist

"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion"

Wietse Venema, Scientist

"It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity"

Michael Servetus, Scientist

"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

"The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning"

Lewis Thomas, Scientist

"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

"I am still a keen mountain walker and an enthusiastic glider pilot"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing"

Steven Weinberg, Scientist

"The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless"

Steven Weinberg, Scientist

"Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors"

Mary Catherine Bateson, Scientist

"The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy"

Mary Catherine Bateson, Scientist

"However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions"

Wietse Venema, Scientist

"Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around"

Sylvia Earle, Scientist

"The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced"

Henry W. Kendall, Scientist

"If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not"

Henry W. Kendall, Scientist

"The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli"

Johannes P. Muller, Scientist

"The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis"

Jon Postel, Scientist

"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others"

Jon Postel, Scientist

"It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus"

Tycho Brahe, Scientist

"When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

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