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Quotes by Scientist
"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."
47
"There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude."
47
"That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople."
47
"Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are."
Will,
47
"I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like."
47
"Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish."
47
"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."
47
"Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image."
47
"The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious."
47
"The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers."
47
"This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named."
47
"Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?"
Old,
47
"Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense."
47
"Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done."
Care,
47
"There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory."
47
"Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day."
47
"We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy. And if we are a speck in the immensity of space, we also occupy an instant in the expanse of ages."
47
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
47
"Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."
47
"I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries."
47
"Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women."
47
"It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity."
47
"Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule."
47
"If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications."
47
"What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information."
47
"Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets."
47
"It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him."
47
"It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on."
47
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