Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Scientists - Page 20

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Science merely amplifies the capabilities of human beings. Science gives us the ability to do ill and to do good more than we had, and to question science in this respect is like questioning whether people ought to have two hands or just one, because with two hands they could do more evil than they can with just one.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

Illegitimacy is important for the socialisation of little girls and especially little boys. If you have large numbers of young men growing up who never see an adult male doing the ordinary things men do, then you get chaos. This is not a moral statement, it's an empirical statement.

To be successful, it is imperative that you not only know the organizations you work with, but more specifically, you have to know the actual people you work with within these organizations, understand what their personal goals and motivations are. In short, to be successful, you need to humanize your clients.

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

If someone hurts me on social media, I want to tell them that they've hurt me. I believe you should say what you're feeling. We should all do that, but what I've also realized is that even a negative comment is from a person who is trying to reach out. When I reply, maybe I'm reminding them that there's a deeper meaning to what they're doing.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

One must work; one must work. I have done what I could.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

It's OK to pursue speculative ideas because we don't want to be too cozy and safe and assume that we know everything about life in the universe. However, we have to be rigorous and careful and honest and logical and scientifically meticulous when we speculate.

The most influential utopian idea of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was socialism, which has failed everywhere. Under the banner of socialism, Stalin's U.S.S.R. and Mao's China gave us not utopias but ghastly anti-utopias.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

The best diet for overall health, and specifically for heart, brain, and cancer risk reduction, is a diet that's aggressively low in carbohydrates with an abundance of healthful fat, and this is the central theme of 'Grain Brain.'

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.

Where there is a challenge there has to be a response.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

It pays to be in the best shape possible when you're wrangling the largest reptiles on Earth!

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

My son was a goalkeeper in soccer, and he luckily never had much head trauma. He never had any concussions or anything. I really wanted him to play football, but now I'm thankful he didn't.

We've discovered the secret of life.

Economics is not brain surgery.

The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous - to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

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

Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death.

If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the animals interact with each other and with their environment, which means we need to be constantly seeking new and improved methods for exploration and observation.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet. Even to a person of faith, in fact especially to a person of faith, an understanding of the evolutionary process should only deepen their appreciation of the scope and wisdom of the creator's work.

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Being a woman has helped my career more than it's hindered it.

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

Lawsuits take a long time.

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards of the wheat rubbing together. They sound like the pine needles in a forest. It is a sweet, whispering music that once you hear, you never forget.