Famous quotes by Scientists

"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

"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

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

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

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

Jamie Zawinski, 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

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

John Warnock, Scientist

"No one nor anything can silence me"

Dmitri Mendeleev, Scientist

"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas"

Linus Pauling, 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

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

Manfred Eigen, Scientist

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis"

Manfred Eigen, Scientist

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

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

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

Michael Behe, Scientist

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

Alfred Korzybski, Scientist

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing"

Wernher von Braun, Scientist

"Consistency beats intensity, especially for building habits that last"

Andrew Huberman, Scientist

"Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before"

Owen Chamberlain, Scientist

"The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research"

Owen Chamberlain, Scientist

"Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law"

Louis Agassiz, Scientist

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining"

Jef Raskin, Scientist

"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers"

Lewis Thomas, Scientist

"There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die"

William Harvey, Scientist

"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity"

Dennis Ritchie, Scientist

"Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method"

Carl D. Anderson, Scientist

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