“{ In a letter to his friend Rudolf Wagner } I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not.” — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound... { His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare }” — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“You’re talking about miracles? A scientist?’ ‘You can have scientific miracles, too,” — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
To make yourself a good scientist I would say first, you have to have curiosity. If you don't have any curiosity you… — Tasuku Honjo Copy Share Image
It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in. — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
Before the 1940s the terms "system" and "systems thinking" had been used by several scientists, but it was Bertalanffy's concepts of an… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
We affirm the neutrality of Science ... Science is of no country. ... But if Science has no country, the scientist must… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail right through… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
For the third year in a row, the United States has set a record for winter warmth, federal scientists reported yesterday. With… — William K. Stevens Copy Share Image
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist. — Moby Copy Share Image
A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds. — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can. — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes. — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
“I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I… — Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
God is running the universe. We ought not think like scientists, but think like psalmists. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act… — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily. — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
“A scientist's accomplishments are equal to the integral of his ability integrated over the hours of his effort.” — Henry Eyring Copy Share Image