Famous quotes by Scientists

"People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so"

Kary Mullis, Scientist

"No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth, progress is most rapid"

Ernest Lawrence, Scientist

"On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me"

Henry Bessemer, Scientist

"When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them"

Cliff Shaw, Scientist

"What more can we require? Nothing but time"

James Hutton, Scientist

"We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible"

Peter Agre, Scientist

"I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated"

Dian Fossey, Scientist

"In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that"

Theo de Raadt, Scientist

"I work on OpenBSD full-time as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system"

Theo de Raadt, Scientist

"The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems"

Peter Agre, Scientist

"Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking"

Humphry Davy, Scientist

"We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings"

Kenichi Fukui, Scientist

"Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents"

Edmund Leach, Scientist

"I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert, who was an angel, and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them"

Dian Fossey, Scientist

"I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires"

William Standish Knowles, Scientist

"In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe"

William Standish Knowles, Scientist

"I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery"

Henry Bessemer, Scientist

"I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole"

Robert Barany, Scientist

"PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV"

Kary Mullis, Scientist

"Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms"

Edward Forbes, Scientist

"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent, on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell"

Michael Polanyi, Scientist

"As we descend deeper and deeper in this region, its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished, or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence"

Edward Forbes, Scientist

"But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money"

Michael Polanyi, Scientist

"In the Radiation Laboratory, we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering"

Ernest Lawrence, Scientist

"My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are"

William John Wills, Scientist

"At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people"

William John Wills, Scientist

"The undevout astronomer must be mad"

William Herschel, Scientist

"From the very commencement, the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies"

Robert James Graves, Scientist

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