Quotes by Scientists

Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive. Jon Postel
Valuable Group Very Discussion Productive Less Drafting
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future. Joseph Needham
Future Will Relations Hierarchy Structure Ecological Idea Leading Perhaps Equilibrium Molecular Whole Species Carbon
Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future. Julius Sterling Morton
Future Day Past Other Those Proposes Like While Holidays Each
PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV. Kary Mullis
People Made Easier See Infected HIV Certain
The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals. Keith Henson
Generation Animals Other Gives Factor Advantage Primary Over Passed Person Information Humans Competitive Competitive Advantage
We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings. Kenichi Fukui
Happiness Science Field Every Disaster Pray Contribute May Human Human Beings Beings Bringing
All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world. Kenneth R. Miller
Nature Religion Natural World Word Become Too Our Those Frankly Promoting Identified Often Place View Natural World
Think about what caused the injury and how it can be prevented next time; that way, you will become a smarter athlete and less likely to repeat the same mistakes. Kevin R. Stone
Time You Will Mistakes Become Think Way Athlete About Smarter Likely How Caused Repeat Same Same Mistakes Next Next Time Less Injury
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. Konrad Lorenz
Natural Will Face Evolution Determined Fact Selection Cultures Historians Did Same Manner Natural Selection Species
We do not take humor seriously enough. Konrad Lorenz
Seriously Humor Enough Take
Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Light Space Will First Earth Atmosphere Emerge Remain Pursuit Advance He Bounds Until Forever Mankind Then Whole Conquered
I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius. Leo Szilard
Good Genius Better Idiot Draw Favor Someone Step Takes Democratic Principle Idiots Line Than Next Next Step Two
If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision. Leo Szilard
Decision Enough Able Only Know Knows Well-Balanced Does Arrive
All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer. Leroy Hood
You School Those Details Memorize Computer Most Learn Going Us Your Medical Medical School Things
As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves. Lewis Thomas
Life Time Face Few Young Too Other Earth Evolution Ourselves Thousand Thousand Years Threatening No Time Taking Parts Spread Still Years Covering Clocks Trusted Just Forms Juvenile Planet Across Livable Now Species
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. Lewis Thomas
Nature Humanity Behavior Nothing Live Other Our Unaccountable Unpredictable Threatening Obliged Toward Most Itself Which Strangest Each Phenomena
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. Liberty Hyde Bailey
Education Man Sunset Carry Triumphant Purpose True Himself Teach
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. Liberty Hyde Bailey
Religion Science World Philosophy Remain Contemplation How Ultimate May Explain Eventually Why
Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them. Linus Pauling
People Cancer Research Everyone Fraud Support Major Know Most Duties Them Should Derelict Organizations Who Largely
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course. Loren Eiseley
God Man Will Matters Own Assuming Take Misses Knows Course Becoming How Smug Many Things
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. Louis Pasteur
Yourself Tainted Skepticism Barren
Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly. Lynn Margulis
Everybody Like Look Caterpillar Knows Anything Butterfly
Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life. Lynn Margulis
Life You Atoms Year Skin Every Months Sign Percent Weeks New Days Sure Sure Sign Non-Stop Metabolism Chemical Continuously Lining Itself Replaced Replacement Five Get Stomach Six Order Body Your Your Body Liver Two
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. Manfred Eigen
Practice No Difference Between Difference Theory
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. Margaret Mead
Women Men Possible Want Working Mediocre
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. Margaret Mead
Yesterday Our Must Point No-One Knew Schools Knows Educate Where Children Prepare Now
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