Famous quotes by Scientists

"East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century"

William Kirby, Scientist

"Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built"

William Masters, Scientist

"To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone"

Louis Leakey, Scientist

"Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up"

Thomas J. Watson, Scientist

"My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate)"

Rudolph A. Marcus, Scientist

"Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life"

Joe Clark, Scientist

"The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade"

Nils-Axel Morner, Scientist

"We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth"

Kenneth R. Miller, Scientist

"In microbiology, the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains"

Edward Lawrie Tatum, Scientist

"So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb"

Mordechai Vanunu, Scientist

"I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago"

George Porter, Scientist

"It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery"

Howard Carter, Scientist

"We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past"

Heinrich Schliemann, Scientist

"Some scientists use TeX or LaTeX, but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days"

Miguel de Icaza, Scientist

"They do not know very good Latin, these botanists"

Albert Hofmann, Scientist

"Notwithstanding these major arguments, the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance"

Max von Laue, Scientist

"I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations"

Ernst Mayr, Scientist

"Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful"

Pierre Curie, Scientist

"Evolution is a tinkerer"

Francois Jacob, Scientist

"Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"I learned the value of hard work by working hard"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive, and potentially orderly and constructive"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"For the very first time, the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born, it compels humility: what we began is now its own"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to, and familiar ones to listen to again"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

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