Biographies Quotes

333 Biographies quotes by 255 unique authors

My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the 'Origin', was, 'How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!' — Thomas Huxley
No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it.… — Bronislaw Malinowski
Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy. — Harold Lasswell
Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry… — E. C. Bentley
The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever. — Charles Darwin
The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out… — Bronislaw Malinowski
The man who walks with Henslow. — Charles Darwin
The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in his character, and… — Davies Gilbert
The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended… — Charles Darwin
To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace… — Charles Darwin
Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal… — Michael Faraday
We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You… — Samuel Morse
Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct or not ... I expect that's the… — Paul Dirac
When [Erwin SchrÃ¶dinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all… — Paul Dirac
With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which would… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that. — Christopher Kelk Ingold
Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist. — Enrico Fermi
[FlÃ¼rscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments. — Christopher Kelk Ingold
[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to… — Abraham Pais

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