Famous quotes by Scientists

"Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

"No greater problem is presented to the human mind"

Annie Jump Cannon, Scientist

"Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe"

Annie Jump Cannon, Scientist

"Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all"

Annie Jump Cannon, Scientist

"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever"

Niklaus Wirth, Scientist

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less"

Marie Curie, Scientist

"My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others"

Jamie Zawinski, Scientist

"Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view"

Max Planck, Scientist

"Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them"

Linus Pauling, Scientist

"And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity"

Will Wright, Scientist

"They all, in general, had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees"

James Lind, Scientist

"Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words"

Alfred Korzybski, Scientist

"The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way"

Richard Stallman, Scientist

"Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good"

Bjarne Stroustrup, Scientist

"It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses"

Barbara McClintock, Scientist

"It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission"

Grace Hopper, Scientist

"Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before"

Luc Montagnier, Scientist

"Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

"Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features"

Primo Levi, Scientist

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water"

Loren Eiseley, Scientist

"But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time"

Patrick Geddes, Scientist

"Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it"

Benjamin Whorf, Scientist

"Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content"

John Dykstra, Scientist

"Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool"

John Mason Good, Scientist

"The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age"

Davidson Black, Scientist

"The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces"

Cleveland Abbe, Scientist

"The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician"

William J. Mayo, Scientist

"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

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