Famous quotes by Scientists

"Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country, but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"What we were seeing was a little bit like throwing the apple up in the air and seeing it blast off into space"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"It is we that are blind, not fortune!"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license"

Will Wright, Scientist

"On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me"

Will Wright, Scientist

"A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior"

Will Wright, Scientist

"We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area"

Will Wright, Scientist

"The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges"

Will Wright, Scientist

"Everybody has a different definition of the good side"

Will Wright, Scientist

"There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political!"

Will Wright, Scientist

"I typically go overboard when I research new projects"

Will Wright, Scientist

"The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was, it was actually speeding up!"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"This is the kind of discovery that resonates"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"I tend not to dwell too much on ultimates"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to speed up, the Universe will end in ice"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware, which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. So that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation"

James Lind, Scientist

"Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water, come almost to a boil, and continue nearly in the state of boiling, until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use"

James Lind, Scientist

"Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

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