Scientist Quotes
I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.
Neil Degrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician
If many things in the past have gone wrong in the lives of men and in the lives of their communities, it is because both small- and large-scale activities were blundered into without any thought or vision of universal planning.
Fritz Zwicky
Swiss astronomer
Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need to know about that gene. But proteins are three-dimensional. They have to be because we are three-dimensional, and we're made of those proteins. Otherwise we'd all sort of be linear, unimaginably weird creatures.
Francis Collins
Former Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute
With original cryptography, you are just trying to secure one narrow thing - say, communications - and you are trying to secure it from a third party. But you can't secure it from the party you are talking to if they forward your email; it doesn't matter how well your email is encrypted.
Nick Szabo
Computer scientist
Democracy is more than a ballot box.
Mohamed Elbaradei
Former Vice-President of Egypt
I have oft-times been besought, by divers gentlemen, to set down on paper what I have beheld through my newly invented microscopia, but I have generally declined.
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch microbiologist
So many things in my life have gone awry.
Frances Arnold
American chemical engineer
The Bible was written by fallible human beings.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.
Paul Berg
American biochemist
The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
Mary Catherine Bateson
American writer
I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.
Ernest Lawrence
American physicist
One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.
Philip Warren Anderson
American theoretical physicist
Arguably, my student status and perhaps my gender were also my downfall with respect to the Nobel Prize, which was awarded to Professor Antony Hewish and Professor Martin Ryle. At the time, science was still perceived as being carried out by distinguished men.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Astrophysicist
Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
Oliver Sacks
British Neurologist, Author
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
American writer
In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.
Elizabeth Blackburn
Australian-American biological scientist
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