Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Scientists - Page 4

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.

The best thing about having a lady professor on campus is that it tells women students that they can do it, too.

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.

We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren't very abundant and have competition, even within a single animal. We introduce them into a new, rich habitat called the human population, where they can flourish more abundantly and cause more trouble.

You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, except under a microscope. They're so small, we don't see them, but they are everywhere.

If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company.

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

If we understand the worm, we understand life.

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

I have always been interested in health care and doing something that is dramatic.

If you're a content creator looking to elicit a certain emotion, we can validate that. In cases where an ad is trying to elicit humor, we can tell you if people get the jokes or not by the number of people who smile, the intensity of the smile, and the timing of the smile.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.

I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.

As a young planet, Venus was losing hydrogen rapidly to space. The oceans boiled off, and after some period of time, perhaps 600 million years, there was no surface water.

I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files.

You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.

New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In doing so, it has a potent opportunity to create new misconceptions and confusion.

Global warming would increase the rate of evaporation from the oceans. This would increase rainfall worldwide. In addition, global warming would lengthen the growing season, thereby increasing still further the bounty of both agriculture and nature.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.

People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job.

Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.

It is not a Pandora's box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose.

The world is a fickle place, and it's not fair. But if you're getting most of your rewards from you, then you can use that as a kind of compass, and you can be secure in the fact that you're working for the right reason, and you're going in the right direction.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

There's lots of prejudice, but if you examine yourself, you can make It. Of course, this doesn't make me too popular with some quarters in the women s movement.

Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable technology.

This is what I do. I look at brains. I'm fascinated by it. I can spend hours doing it. In fact, if I want to relax, that's one way I can relax.

As a technologist, I see how AI and the fourth industrial revolution will impact every aspect of people's lives.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

The sun can't shine forever.

Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.

This possibility to change reality, which exists in everyone, represents the real freedom of every human individual. He has an enormous possibility to change his world view.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.