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593 Scientist Quotes

Being part of a team that finds an HIV Vaccine will be my greatest scientific accomplishment.

Being part Finds Vaccine Scientific accomplishment
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HIV pulled me into medical research from a clinician/pediatrician, revolving around young women and their children. It has in some ways enriched me and, in some ways, embattled my life.

Medical research Clinic Revolving around Young women
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Success means doing something that impacts on the lives of others. Success means impact, and means significance.

Success Doing something Lives Impact
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As a medical doctor and scientist, there are many problems to solve, find one that intrigues you and follow it relentlessly by doing research to answer that question.

Medical doctor Scientist Many problems Intrigues
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Love your work so much that it’s easy to work at nights, on the weekends, and you would even do it for free.

Love Your work Weekends Free
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If we are successful in South Africa, there will be bridging studies to anywhere in the world – to East Africa, the U.S., to young girls, to babies,

Successful Bridging studies World
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Every girl needs a father who’s a hero in some way or another.

Every girl Father Hero
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If you ever feel unsafe, the best thing anyone can do for you is to put you in the spotlight.

Feel unsafe Best thing Do Put
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The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Ability Differently Gained Important
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But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

Action Commonly Parts Existence
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But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.

Actually Controls Decide Each
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Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

Ancient Between Body Evolved
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So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

Advancing Begins Destruction Either
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This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

Against Another Doing Feature
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Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began.
Began Constantly System Evolving
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Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

Creating Divisions Itself Naturally
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In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.

Continuous Defined Mechanics Movement
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Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

Individuality Only Possible Unfolds
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In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

Clue Man Microcosm Sense
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Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

Anyone Thinks Sky Limit
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Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

Every time History repeats Price
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There’s more to the truth than just the facts.

More to truth Just The facts
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Choose your ground well. War is a game of geography.

Choose Ground well War Game
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A thief believes everybody steals.

Thief Believes Everybody steals
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An uneasy peace was better than no peace at all.

Uneasy peace Better than
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The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Greatest test Courage Bear defeat Losing heart
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Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself, be sure of that.

Have you Wish Be saved Be sure
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One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.

Weakness Our age Apparent inability Need from
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The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.

Mathematical difficulties Theory Rotation Geometrical illustrations
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Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

Colour Perceived Independent variables Time
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The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

Chief philosophical Value Physics Mind
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

Great advantage Student Original memoirs Science
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All the mathematical sciences are founded on the relations between physical laws and laws of numbers

Mathematical sciences Relations Physical laws Numbers
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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter

Laws Matter Our minds.fabricate
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In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

Every branch Knowledge Progress Facts
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Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

Conscious ignorance Prelude Real advance Science
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The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities.
True logic World Calculus Probabilities
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I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

Have looked Philosophical systems God
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In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.

Science Some interest Great discoverers Lives
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I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

Capacity More wicked Example Man
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express

Mathematicians Flatter Possess New ideas
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... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.

Great Physical constants Approximately estimated Men
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Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

Sometime The people Can imagine Anything
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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Science Differential equation Boundary condition
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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Computer Called intelligent Deceive Human
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The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

The idea Digital computers Machines Intended
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I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams.

Dream indicating Clearly Being hetero Enthusiasm
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I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.

Permanent relationship Feel inclined Reject anything Nature
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Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.

Like violence Feels good Human Deeply satisfying
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Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

Programming Skill Best acquired Practice
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