Famous quotes by Scientists

"Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind is wisdom"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong, I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind, the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics, none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

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