Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Scientists - Page 19

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

I imagine a world in which AI is going to make us work more productively, live longer, and have cleaner energy.

Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The notion of having a fleet of autonomous ocean-going vehicles wandering the world collecting data is something out of fiction.

The best technology is when you are free to do what you want.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

The FDA serves a real purpose: To protect public health.

In 1960-61, a small group of female pilots went through many of the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts and scored very well on them - in fact, better than some of the astronauts did.

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one of them sinks, the rest are going to sink with them and if one floats, the rest are lifted up. I find that very interesting.

We have to ask, 'How can we break a huge challenge like sending humans to Mars into a series of doable, affordable steps? How can we break that problem down into chunks in order to keep making progress?'

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

In the U.S., women smile more than men. In the U.K., there's no difference between men and women.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

There are things we do out of habit that are not always good for us. Break the bad habits and develop some good ones.

Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology.

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical.

After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

I've already had my happily ever after.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

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

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.

If people are all the same underneath, how has society changed so fast and so radically? Life now is completely different to how it was 32,000 years ago. It's changed like that of no other species has. What's made that difference?

We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

As a planetary system, Saturn holds the greatest promise for answering questions that have a far broader scientific reach than Saturn itself.

Technology could benefit or hurt people, so the usage of tech is the responsibility of humanity as a whole, not just the discoverer. I am a person before I'm an AI technologist.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.

God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.

Mars is key to humanity's future in space. It is the closest planet that has all the resources needed to support life and technological civilization. Its complexity uniquely demands the skills of human explorers, who will pave the way for human settlers.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

Literal cleanliness and orderliness can release us from abstract cognitive and affective distress - just consider how, during moments where life seems to be spiraling out of control, it can be calming to organize your clothes, clean the living room, get the car washed.

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

What I see happening to this country is a neo-caste system.

When I got engaged to be married, it was assumed that I would quit science and be a housewife. It was considered shameful if a married woman had to work - it implied that her husband couldn't earn enough to keep her.

In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get social polarization. The whole lower middle class sinks.

Research such as ours is driven by the human imperative to understand where we are. It motivates the study of our positions in family, or in society, or on earth. The results may be termed geology, or sociology, or poetry.

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.