Royal Society Quotes

13 Royal Society quotes by 12 unique authors

[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the… — Thomas Sprat
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex… — Bill Bryson
Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would… — Martin Rees
[The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on controversial issues such… — Bill Bryson
Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing… — Julian Schwinger
In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members of… — Colin Robinson
Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive;… — Alasdair MacIntyre
In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. — John E. Walker
Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities-His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when embarrassed to articulate… — Humphry Davy
This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes,… — Isaac Newton
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
Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th,… — Seth Lloyd
I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a… — Rupert Sheldrake

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