Famous quotes by Scientists

"No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

"The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do"

Galileo Galilei, Scientist

"Yet, food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders, despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

"If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

"Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field"

Charles Francis Richter, Scientist

"From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions"

Charles Francis Richter, Scientist

"Today, the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system"

Niklaus Wirth, Scientist

"A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales"

Marie Curie, Scientist

"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state"

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

"I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative"

John Warnock, Scientist

"Linux is only free if your time has no value"

Jamie Zawinski, Scientist

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is"

Manfred Eigen, Scientist

"In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle, it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis"

Manfred Eigen, Scientist

"The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power"

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

"Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"Whatever you say it is, it isn't"

Alfred Korzybski, Scientist

"The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"Culture is not made up, but something that evolves, which is human"

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

"Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life"

Michael Behe, Scientist

"No one nor anything can silence me"

Dmitri Mendeleev, Scientist

"Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

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