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Quotes by Scientist
"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology."
77
"If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness."
76
"But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography."
75
"Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought."
75
"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."
75
"The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes."
74
"Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul."
74
"The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."
74
"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."
72
"For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc."
72
"There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide."
72
"Force always attracts men of low morality."
72
"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves."
72
"As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation."
71
"The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly."
70
"However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day."
70
"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."
69
"I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable."
69
"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."
69
"The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus."
68
"There should be no such thing as boring mathematics."
68
"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."
68
"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature."
67
"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."
67
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
67
"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."
67
"Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons."
67
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
66
"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language."
66
"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."
65
"But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy."
65
"But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo."
65
"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."
64
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