Famous quotes by Scientists

"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

Thomas Huxley

"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

Thomas Huxley

"Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

Guido van Rossum

"Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

Guido van Rossum

"In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

Guido van Rossum

"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival"

W. Edwards Deming, Scientist

W. Edwards Deming

"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

Charles Darwin

"Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward"

Maxwell Maltz, Scientist

Maxwell Maltz

"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points"

Alan Kay, Scientist

Alan Kay

"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young"

Konrad Lorenz, Scientist

Konrad Lorenz

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

"Where there is no vision, there is no hope"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

"Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind"

Abdus Salam, Scientist

"The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs"

Thomas Sydenham, Scientist

"Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs"

John Warnock, Scientist

"If you ask almost any of them, 'Do you stand behind your theory? Is this the answer?' I think almost everyone would say, 'No, no, no. I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities.' We really don't know what's going on"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

Saul Perlmutter

"It's not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it"

Hans Selye, Scientist

Hans Selye

"My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work"

Gregor Mendel, Scientist

"No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"If co-operation is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole"

Arthur Holly Compton, Scientist

Arthur Holly Compton

"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities"

Alfred L. Kroeber, Scientist

Alfred L. Kroeber

"Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make"

Paul Berg, Scientist

"A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world"

Harvey Cushing, Scientist

"Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

"The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

Thomas Huxley

Page 3 of 143

See the complete list of scientist people