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Quotes by Scientist
"The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature."
50
"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
May,
50
"It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience."
50
"Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method."
50
"Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive."
50
"You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there."
50
"A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth."
50
"It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about."
50
"My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity."
50
"Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties."
50
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
50
"It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good."
50
"The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job."
50
"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."
50
"Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next."
50
"I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field."
50
"The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity."
50
"I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home."
50
"The sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years."
50
"In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely."
50
"In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries."
50
"I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do."
50
"It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online."
50
"Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about."
50
"Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered."
50
"From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions."
50
"The answer has to be sought in the material conditions of the production and utilization of cattle in India compared with the production and utilization of cattle in other parts of the world."
50
"Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases."
Land,
50
"An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy."
50
"There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures."
50
"No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding."
50
"He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of 1953."
50
"There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan."
50
"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."
50
"I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour."
50
"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."
50
"I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit."
50
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