Death Quote by James Clerk Maxwell

“During the Society's early years, no member personified the organization's eccentricities or audacious mission more than Sir Francis Galton. A cousin of Charles Darwin's,…

— David Grann

“Galton, by comparison, was more a polymath, and made not insignificant contributions to a whole range of fields. His myriad gifts to the world…

— Adam Rutherford

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he…

— Dorothy Thompson

“While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of…

— David Hume

“He learns that the form, in its current form, was originally called a formulary, and was invented by an Englishman named Charles Babbage, the…

— Stephen Dau

“When God, the great mathematician, discovered that in making man he had overdone things a bit, he created the bedbug to even things out.…

— Ruskin Bond

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once…

— Kevin Kelly

“Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us…

— Nick Bostrom

“All great discoveries in experimental physics have been due to the intuition of men who made free use of models, which were for them…

— Victor J. Stenger

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.”

— Kevin Kelly

“These were the things that built the world. Not to know or care about them was a betrayal of fundamental principles, a betrayal of…

— Don DeLillo

“To be such a complicated, mysterious piece of biological machinery, and more amazing still, to have the capacity to analyze that machinery! That is…

— Veronica Roth