Famous quotes by Scientists

"Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme"

Bernard Katz, Scientist

"When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills"

Albert Claude, Scientist

"I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days"

W. Richard Stevens, Scientist

"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature"

Richard Ernst, Scientist

"It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection"

Maurice Wilkins, Scientist

"One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers"

Robert Fortune, Scientist

"Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good"

Andrew Taylor Still, Scientist

"We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources"

Jane Goodall, Scientist

"The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers"

Benjamin Banneker, Scientist

"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation"

Howard Scott, Scientist

"Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat"

Julian Huxley, Scientist

"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age"

Thomas Gold, Scientist

"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world"

Paul Dudley White, Scientist

"The overall view of the Human Genome Project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand"

Thomas R. Cech, Scientist

"Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally"

Ian Allison, Scientist

"I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do"

George Gaylord Simpson, Scientist

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement"

Jim Horning, Scientist

"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science"

Edwin Powell Hubble, Scientist

"We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team"

J Allard, Scientist

"The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other"

Piers Corbyn, Scientist

"Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future"

Julius Sterling Morton, Scientist

"Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors"

Max Delbruck, Scientist

"The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time"

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Scientist

"The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday"

Sam Sheppard, Scientist

"I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python"

Yukihiro Matsumoto, Scientist

"Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science"

Burton Richter, Scientist

"So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental"

Sydney Brenner, Scientist

"I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign"

Paul Graham, Scientist

"The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws, and what is learned of one will be known of the other"

James Smithson, Scientist

"The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth"

Irving Langmuir, Scientist

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