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593 Scientist Quotes

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Discovered Easy Once Point
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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Hope No Hope Vision Where
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Aged Because Been Being
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Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
Destroy Eventually Fear Hate
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Door Education Freedom Golden
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If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

Anything Enough Love Talk
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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

Achievement Anything Cut Life
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From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

Algebra Being Child Desire
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

Broadcasting Every God Hour
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Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

Creative Creative Mind Developments Encourage
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Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

Changes Creator Despite Earth
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When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.

Actions Against Anyone Bring
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

About Books Carefully Fine
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Beautiful Before Loveliness More
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Come Excuses Failures Habit
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

Any Behind Come Distinct
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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Attention Command Common Common Things
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Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.

Across Christ Could Fellow
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God cannot use you as He wishes until you come into the fullness of His Glory. Do not get alarmed, my friend, when doubts creep in. That is old Satan. Pray, pray, pray.

Cannot Come Creep Doubts
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We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

Almost Among Arts Become
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I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.

Allow Anyone Badly Difference
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Anything Cannot Discover Help
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

Been First Give God
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Bible Go Heaven Heavens
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Him Ignorant Learn Man
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carry Imagination Never Nowhere
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Arranged Civilization Crucial Depend
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Benign Hostile Indifferent Merely
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.

Bad Planet Save Trouble
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When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Earth Finding Forget Last
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Bright Classes Night Rise
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Chance Continue Death Delighted
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

American Bits Books Broadcast
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Ambition Harmony Human Perfect
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Bearable Creatures Love Only
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Forgotten Galaxy Insignificant Live
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Amazed Among Capability College
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Body Knowledge More Science
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Brain Good Joyous Muscle
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Anyone Anything Dependent Hardly
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Better Delusion Far Grasp
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Apple Pie First Invent
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Deep Nonsense Religion Science
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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Believe Disservice Long Reason
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Brothers Clown Columbus Fact
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Power Prescription Science Technology
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Awake Basic Understanding Citizenry
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Absence Evidence Not
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Exception Extinction Rule Survival
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In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Come Help Hint Obscurity
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