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Quotes by Scientist
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
150
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
110
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
99
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
93
"I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work."
92
"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."
76
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
73
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
65
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
64
"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
64
"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences."
63
"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
63
"You never fail until you stop trying."
62
"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out."
60
"It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole."
58
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
56
"The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."
56
"I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world."
52
"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology."
52
"I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry."
51
"The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly."
49
"Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments."
49
"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language."
49
"I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash."
48
"Force always attracts men of low morality."
48
"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves."
48
"Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate."
47
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
47
"There should be no such thing as boring mathematics."
46
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