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Quotes by Scientist
"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."
73
"If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering."
73
"It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing."
73
"The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine."
73
"I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't."
72
"Logic will get you from A to Z, imagination will get you everywhere."
72
"We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses."
72
"I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes."
72
"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained."
72
"If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment."
72
"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
71
"Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later."
71
"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say."
71
"The state exists for man,not man for the state.The same may be said ofscience. These are old phrases,coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value .I would hesitate to repeat them,were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten,especially in these days of organization and stereotypes."
71
"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
71
"Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone."
70
"People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations."
70
"We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire."
70
"I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am."
70
"They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing."
70
"The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department."
69
"Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations."
69
"In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions."
69
"The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite."
69
"The human spirit must prevail over technology."
69
"For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace."
69
"And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that."
69
"It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts."
69
"Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it."
68
"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."
68
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
68
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