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Quotes by Scientist
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
233
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
158
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
157
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
154
"I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work."
120
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death."
118
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
116
"You never fail until you stop trying."
115
"The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us."
115
"I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry."
112
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
110
"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."
109
"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
105
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
100
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
100
"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences."
97
"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out."
96
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
94
"I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum."
91
"I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash."
87
"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
87
"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists."
86
"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."
85
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
82
"The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue."
81
"I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world."
80
"It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole."
80
"I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems."
78
"This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today."
78
"I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war."
78
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