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Quotes by Scientist
"When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff."
121
"Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments."
121
"Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate."
120
"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences."
120
"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."
118
"I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity."
114
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
114
"The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing."
112
"There should be no such thing as boring mathematics."
112
"When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world."
111
"I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward."
111
"But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo."
111
"Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms."
110
"For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men."
109
"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature."
108
"Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization."
108
"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists."
108
"Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced."
107
"So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story."
107
"We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries."
107
"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."
105
"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."
104
"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
104
"The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts."
102
"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."
102
"Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected."
100
"Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul."
100
"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
99
"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."
98
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
97
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