Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Scientists - Page 7

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented.

One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not to be autonomous.

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

The dose makes the poison.

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

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

Science is evidence-based and provides a continuing understanding of complex natural phenomena. Our understanding is constantly evolving and continually improving.

Increase your consumption of healthful fats like extra virgin olive oil, avocado, grass-fed beef, wild fish, coconut oil, nuts and seeds. At the same time, keep in mind that modified fats like hydrogenated or trans fats are the worst choices for brain health.

If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.

What we were seeing was a little bit like throwing the apple up in the air and seeing it blast off into space.

It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

As our technology evolves, we will have the capacity to reach new, ever-increasing depths. The question is what kind of technology, in the end, do we want to deploy in the far reaches of the ocean? Tools of science, ecology and documentation, or the destructive tools of heavy industry?

The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

Dave Duerson had classic pathology of CTE and no evidence of any other disease.

Race has no genetic or scientific basis.

There's not enough said about the beauty of being able to focus on what you do well.

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

For me, the single most important question is how to construct a society that is just, safe, peaceful - all those good things - when people finally accept that there is no free will.

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.

Based on research into the Picture Superiority Effect, when we read text alone, we are likely to remember only 10 percent of the information 3 days later. If that information is presented to us as text combined with a relevant image, we are likely to remember 65 percent of the information 3 days later.

Our human face happens to be one of the most powerful channels that we all use to communicate social and emotional states: everything from enjoyment, surprise, empathy, and curiosity.

We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

I have to listen to my body - and it's telling me not to run long distances. So how do you train for a race when you know you won't have the same result as before? And should you even join if you know you can't run the whole race? Absolutely - just run-walk it.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

Our ancestors relied upon their advanced brains to survive during times of food shortage, and fortunately, the human brain is able to utilize body fat as an extremely efficient fuel to sustain function when glucose-providing food is unavailable.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.

Although there exist in the world today some microbes of the soul, such as discrimination and aggression, science was and still is the core of progress for humanity and the continuity of civilization.

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

Just as your own existence is unlikely and far from inevitable, the evolution of modern humans as a species depended on a whole string of chance events - some happening in the environments our ancestors inhabited, and some inside their own bodies, including random mutations in their DNA.

We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female, or between male and intersex and female and intersex; we actually draw that line on nature.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.

A combination of cardio exercises on the rowing machine, treadmill, elliptical, or The Gauntlet will help blast fat in the lower half of the body.

There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives.

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

In the field of astronomy in the mid-'60s, quasars were very sexy objects - gigantic, star-like masses about which little was known. I was a graduate research student at Cambridge working towards my Ph.D. and chose quasars as the subject for my thesis. Part of my project involved surveying the sky for them using a radio telescope.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.