Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Scientists - Page 6

Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists.

Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

When you're at work, be fully at work. And let your leisure time be what it's meant to be - restorative and fun.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.

Even by the diverse standards of Saturn's satellites, Enceladus was an outlier. Its icy surface was as white and bright as fresh snow, and whereas the other airless moons were heavily pocked with craters, Enceladus was mantled in places with extensive plains of smooth, uncratered terrain, a clear sign of past internally driven geologic activity.

So I think as a biologist I would like us to focus on this planet and finding solutions to sustaining humanity, to improving people's lives globally, but doing our absolute utmost to preserve as much biodiversity as we can, knowing that we have already been responsible for the loss of thousands of species.

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

I often tell my students not to be misled by the name 'artificial intelligence' - there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans' lives and human society.

Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

This new understanding of processes on Europa would not have been possible without the foundation of the last 20 years of observations over Earth's ice sheets and floating ice shelves.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

It's very clear that global climate change is occurring on earth, but it's also been very clear that that has always happened on earth. We've always had a changing climate on earth. We all know about ice ages. We know when our continent was covered with ice sheets. We know glaciers come and they go. It puzzles me that people forget that.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

We mostly don't get sick. Most often, bacteria are keeping us well.

Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, shell building creatures such as lobster, oyster, crab, shrimp, and coral are unable to extract the calcium carbonate from the water that they need to build their shells and are thus unable to survive.

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.

It's stimulating to teach a new course. To teach a course three times in a row is, I think, about the maximum for me. On the second year - you know, the saying is that first year you learn how to teach the course, the second year you do it right, and the third year you're coasting and you had better move on to something else.

Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we're in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past?

There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce a narrative of unstoppable decline. If there is nothing we can do, that releases us from our obligations.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.

For true augmented reality, the display would have to dynamically focus, which would require additional hardware on the glasses to read your eye.

No human civilization could ever sever our dependence on photosynthesis.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

The arrow of time doesn't move forward forever. There's a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low entropy to high entropy. But then, once you reach the locally maximum entropy you can get to, there's no more arrow of time.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

The fact is that proprietary databases don't work for such basic and broadly needed information as the sequence of the human genome.

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.

A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

At my first job as an independent researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I knew something about. That is actually very good advice to a young person starting a career because you bring new ideas to the field.

As you go further from the sun, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus are each colder in their upper atmosphere. But when you get to Neptune, it's just as warm as Uranus.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce.

Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.

Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work."

In the Middle East, it is clear that peace will never be reached without solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A two-state solution must be found and enforced.