Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Scientists - Page 16

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

Weather forecast for Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt: cloudy with a chance of ammonia.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot.

One of India's major blessings is the rich store of experience and knowledge available in the rural and tribal areas.

When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!' so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

Mushrooms provide a vast array of potential medicinal compounds. Many mushrooms - such as portobello, oyster, reishi and maitake - are well-known for these properties, but the lion's mane mushroom, in particular, has drawn the attention of researchers for its notable nerve-regenerative properties.

I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful technical things - math, physics, chemistry - that I now use during those four years.

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.

There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

We can build a much brighter future where humans are relieved of menial work using AI capabilities.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.

We're making this analogy that AI is the new electricity. Electricity transformed industries: agriculture, transportation, communication, manufacturing.

Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

Life exists throughout the cosmos and is a consequence of matter in the universe.

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain. Many people walk through their lives in an underslept state, not realizing it.

I have a rule against saying something is impossible unless it violates laws of physics.

I wanted to write a story about my struggles with depression and mental health. It's an issue that needs to be talked about more.

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

Naturalism is a counterpart to theism. Theism says there's the physical world and God. Naturalism says there's only the natural world. There are no spirits, no deities, or anything else.

We have created something incredible. You don't need to get your phone out anymore. Gear takes the entirety of your digital world and places it right where you can see.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.

From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

If you were not to set an alarm clock, would you sleep past it? If the answer is yes, then there is clearly more sleep that is needed.

Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it.

See, technology can advance yield and productivity, but only public policy can advance the income of farmers. There has to be a synergy between technology and public policy.

If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

AI is everywhere. It's not that big, scary thing in the future. AI is here with us.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember.

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

There was a time when Pluto - which NASA's New Horizons spacecraft at last explored in 2015, a mission I led - was considered the last planet. We now know there are thousands of other - possibly inhabited - planets.