Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Scientists - Page 2

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

Archaeology holds all the keys to understanding who we are and where we come from.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

A tree's wood is also its memoir.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

Grief is never something you get over. You don't wake up one morning and say, 'I've conquered that; now I'm moving on.' It's something that walks beside you every day. And if you can learn how to manage it and honour the person that you miss, you can take something that is incredibly sad and have some form of positivity.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

I can get a good doctor in a minute and a half. Getting a really good electrician - that's hard.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

To be adult is to be alone.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

There is an art to eavesdropping, but I think to some extent we are all guilty of picking up those little odds and ends that can be quite intriguing if you analyse them.

The real problem is not the existential threat of AI. Instead, it is in the development of ethical AI systems.

Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.

Your genetics is not your destiny.

If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.

For me, it was my first cosmic connection, on par with a first kiss. No other planet looks as unworldly or surreal as Saturn. When you see it floating in the eyepiece of your telescope, you feel as if you've uncovered mystery in the cosmos.

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.

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

Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

Amid apocalyptic dystopia, 'Fahrenheit 451''s protagonist retains sparks of curiosity, creativity, and courage, and these human characteristics are the seeds of hope that can arise, phoenix-like, from civilization's ashes.

How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

The Renaissance took place in chaos and plague.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.