Famous quotes by Scientists

"Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become"

Leo Szilard, Scientist

"The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together"

Jon Postel, Scientist

"The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly"

Michael Faraday, Scientist

"We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow"

Leo Szilard, Scientist

"A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify"

Leo Szilard, Scientist

"Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden"

Carl D. Anderson, Scientist

"I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born"

David Baltimore, Scientist

"When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating"

David Baltimore, Scientist

"People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells, which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain"

David Baltimore, Scientist

"We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind, to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons"

Mohamed ElBaradei, Scientist

"The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"All experience is subjective"

Gregory Bateson, Scientist

"It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world"

Elizabeth Blackwell, Scientist

"Mountains were once my big adventure, but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded"

Fritz Zwicky, Scientist

"In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men"

Frederick W. Taylor, Scientist

"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However, this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code"

Francis Crick, Scientist

"One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen"

Antoine Lavoisier, Scientist

"It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one"

Antoine Lavoisier, Scientist

"I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed"

Antoine Lavoisier, Scientist

"If a tree dies, plant another in its place"

Carolus Linnaeus, Scientist

"It's the little things that count, hundreds of 'em"

Cliff Shaw, Scientist

"The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle"

James Hutton, Scientist

"The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw"

Humphry Davy, Scientist

"The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us"

Edmund Leach, Scientist

"We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research"

Kenichi Fukui, Scientist

"A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them"

Carolus Linnaeus, Scientist

"The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts"

Robert Barany, Scientist

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