Famous quotes by Scientists

"Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Surely, there is a time to submit to guidance, and a time to take one's own way at all hazards"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Misery is a match that never goes out"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work. It is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true, and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock, and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh, would that I were one of those plodding, wise fools who, having once set their hand to the plough, go on, nothing doubting"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

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