Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Scientists - Page 14

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

When in doubt, use brute force.

There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients, or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. So, in fact, the gamut of medical intervention is enormous.

I consider myself a remarkably unsentimental person. I don't look back on the good old days.

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.

When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

The best way to eat is to eat lots of different kinds of foods. Except for breast milk, no one food is perfect.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Cutting back on calories is not the answer to successful weight loss and successful health... you have to increase the quality of what you eat, not just reduce the quantity.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source.

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.

With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.

It is difficult to think of a major industry that AI will not transform. This includes healthcare, education, transportation, retail, communications, and agriculture. There are surprisingly clear paths for AI to make a big difference in all of these industries.

Memorable people do memorable things. Followers are seldom remembered. The herd mentality is the killer of innovation. When appropriate, be bold in your undertakings.

The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.

You may not see massive UFO exhibits at your local science museum, but there's no dearth of saucer stories infesting my email. Every day, I receive several reports of alien sightings, extraterrestrial plans for Earth, and agitated screeds about the reluctance of scientists to take the whole subject seriously.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

There are not two sides to a story when one side is a lie. Journalists - and the rest of us - must stop giving equal time to things that don't have an opposing side.

Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

I didn't do programming language stuff in college at all.

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

Medical ethics is a fascinating discipline, as it deals with issues replete with complex philosophical, moral, and ethical considerations that are rarely black or white.

I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I'm actually being quite greedy, because what I'm doing is essentially saying, 'I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.'

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.

The human world lives in a framework called global economics. We live in a system based on GDP, which drives consumption. it causes people to compete with each other through trade in a way that they all grow.

I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.

There are two major challenges before Indian agriculture today: ecological and economical. The conservation of our basic agricultural assets such as land, water, and biodiversity is a major challenge. How to make agriculture sustainable is the challenge.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Everything today is "transient." Technology and its ability to empower actors large and small evolve so quickly that we have to get used to living in a world that exists in a more or less constant state of flux.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

When you're young and going to war, it's a genuinely exciting moment. You are going to risk yourself. On the battlefield, you are suddenly free. You realize: I'm here, I'm in it. Exaltation. Suddenly you're hit by another extraordinary feeling: my God, I can be killed. And: will I embarrass myself? It's like you're in a kaleidoscope and all of these extraordinary feelings are zipping by.

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.

Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.

Many of my projects are inspired by Indian mythology. We have read that in the ancient times, people could expand their body parts, extend arms - all of that reads like a dream. But all this can be done using technology based on simple solutions.

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

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.