Quotes by Scientists

The costs of badly-run NASA projects are paid for with cutbacks or delays in NASA projects that didn't go over budget. Hence the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished. Alan Stern
Innocent Projects Punished Guilty Delays Costs Over Budget NASA Go Rewarded Paid Hence
Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer. Alan Stern
Leadership Innovation Pressure More Only Price Clearer Make Practices Domain Commercial Human Common Foster Ever
Having a diverse suite of U.S.-manned spaceflight systems to access space is inherently robust. Alan Stern
Space Suite Systems Diverse Having Robust Access Inherently
The basic story for Golden Spike is that we discovered a way to create do-it-yourself Apollo programs for other countries. Alan Stern
Do-It-Yourself Other Other Countries Programs Way Spike Countries Discovered Golden Story Apollo Create Basic
Pluto and its brethren are the most populous class of planets in our solar system. Alan Stern
Class Solar Our Solar System System Pluto Most Planets Brethren
Pluto is the new Mars. Alan Stern
Mars Pluto New
Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles: it snows on the surface; the snows sublimate and go back into the atmosphere each 248 year orbit. Alan Stern
Strong Year Back Atmosphere Atmospheric Pluto Surface Go Orbit Cycles Each
People ask, 'What are the scientific questions you're going to answer?' New Horizons doesn't have any of those; it's purely about raw exploration... We're not 'rewriting the textbook' - we're writing the textbook from scratch. Alan Stern
You People Writing Those Horizons Purely About Raw New Scientific Answer Textbook Questions Any Going Scratch Rewriting Ask Exploration
If the Pluto mission was a cat, then it would've been dead long ago because they only get nine lives, and we've had significantly more than nine stoppages and odd twists and turns. Alan Stern
Long Nine Pluto More Only Cat Had Mission Dead Because Odd Been Than Get Then Turns Lives Twists
We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration. Alan Stern
Love People Made More Rediscovered Scientific How How Much Discoveries Than Just Much Exploration
If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on Mars. It'll be the most unifying event anybody could ever put on. Alan Stern
People Fly Will First Robot Mars Pluto Could Step Put Like Most Anybody Wanted Unifying Billion Event Ever Watch Humans Two Imagine
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions. Albert Claude
Today Tomorrow Yesterday Once Dimensions New Faiths Einstein Newton Beliefs Plato
No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools. Albert Claude
Man Will Doubt Universe Tools No Doubt Weigh Powers Him Himself Around Continue His According Measure Grow Growing Ever Watch
The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival. Albert Claude
Life Survival Control Herself Earth Ways Environment Over Insure Covered Years Times Cell Substance Billions Many Found Her
For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor. Albert Claude
Life Our Distant Ancestors Remained Physiological Through True Over Years Itself Cell Same Endless Regards Fancy Billion Apparent Mechanisms Her Basic Two
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. Albert Claude
Faith Trust Courage Ethics Will Made Men Past Tolerance Sight Find Spirit New Periods Greatest Equilibrium Occurred Itself Common Mankind Us Let Us Code Now
It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle. Albert Claude
Struggle Will Experiment Live Our Our Lives Maintain Survive Cells Which Span Us Create Search Lives
Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894. Albert Claude
Light Half Later About Small Name Were Referred Microscope Bodies Early
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen. Albert Claude
Failure Relative Destroyed Constituents Brutality Attempt Had Employed Isolate Been Did Cell Happen Might Technique
This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. Albert Claude
Work Death Me Appreciation Mother Long Physician Medicine Respected Tormented Case Study His Tragedy Familiarity Experienced Influenced Wanting Might Agony
We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth. Albert Claude
Wealth Birth Our Entered Inventory Cell Acquired Mansion Started
After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn. Albert Hofmann
Time Day Eyes Wonderful Closed Enjoy Pleasure Fine Some Colors Observe Like Felt Fresh Began Quite After Newborn Which Forms Then Really Next Play Sleep
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Eyes Money Research Think Machines See Brains Which Measure Things Four Fourth
The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Hydrogen Main Splitting Combustion Off Donor Essentially Packet Event Carbohydrate
The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Work Starvation Must Rather Direction Bear Take Him Ready Real Scientist His Dictate Than Anyone Which Need
Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Life World Simple Clever Consequences Enough Our Release We Cannot Comprehend New Primitive Forces Terrific Attuned Brain Cave New World Middle Cannot Which Stand Disposal Whose Here
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