Quotes by Scientists

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. Edsger Dijkstra

Think More Computer Computers Question Submarine Than Whether Interesting Swim

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges. Edsger Dijkstra

Challenges World Something Could Simplified Source Rewarding Suspicion Richest Lurking

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. Edward Appleton

Language Mind Long Sung Opera Understand

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. Edward Jenner

Hope Trust Inspire Beneficial Pleasing Further Inquiry Shall Merely Becoming Still Endeavour Essentially Mankind Moment Sufficient Speculative

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand. Edward Sapir

Way Immediate Easiest Easiest Way Lies About Case Impatience Something Generally Ready Hand Itself Done Desire

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture. Edward T. Hall

For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move. Edward T. Hall

Me People Giving Giving Up Few Radical Thinking Willing Would Risk Him Understood Ballast His Intellectual Up Few People Move Meant

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self. Edward T. Hall

Man Experience Own Valid Validating Self He True Until Another Does His Cultural Experiences Little Reason Basis

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human. Edward T. Hall

Culture Made Something Up Human Which

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams. Eric Topol

School Digital Exams Only Term Medical Medical School Applied

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. Ernest Rutherford

Needs You Better Experiment Ought Statistics Done Your

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. Erwin Schrodinger

Space Nothing Variations Structure Shapes Observe Forces Material Bodies

There is no royal road to geometry. Euclid

Road Geometry Royal Royal Road

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. Eugene Jarvis

Only Computer Computers Legitimate Use Games Play

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe. Eugenie Clark

Hurt People Nice Except Remembered Person Maybe Want Who Nice Person

Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining. Ezekiel Emanuel

You Conversation Will Patient Difficult Draining Hundreds Having Emotionally Been Scores Very Die Patients Tumor Dying Shrink Cared Treatment

I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley. Francis Collins

Ride Pretty Guy Informal Harley

I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith. Francis Collins

Faith Christ Believe Christian Cornerstone Rising Literal Body Christian Faith

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs. Francis Darwin

Man Science World First Idea Occurs Goes Who Whom Credit

Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do. Frank Drake

Nature Never Prime Mathematicians Uses Numbers

There was a magic about pulsars... no other things in the sky had such labels on them. Each one had its own distinct pulsing frequency, so it could be identified by anybody, including other creatures, after a long period of time and far, far away. Frank Drake

Time Sky Long Own Other Distinct Magic About Could Long Period Had Identified Period Frequency Labels Anybody After Them Far Far Away Each Including Creatures Each One Away Things

For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own. Frank Press

Own Out My Own Had Personal Personal Growth Growth Set

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy. Frans de Waal

Morality Empathy Unthinkable Without Human