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Quotes of Scientists
"Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve."
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, mathematician and philosopher.
"Men pass away but their deeds abide."
Augustin-Louis Cauchy,
"Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt."
Charles H. Mayo (1865-1939) U.S. surgeon
Good Judgement is the outcome of experience...and experience is the outcome of bad judgment.
Vivian Fuchs
"Inherited wealth is a misfortune which merely serves to dull man’s faculties."
Alfred Nobel
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
Carl Sagan
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart...Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist
"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also, you will have betrayed your community in failing to make your contribution."
Rollo May (1909-1994) US psychoanalyst "The Courage to Create," 1975.
"There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea."
Percy Williams Bridgeman American scientist (1882-1961)
"Exploration and the pursuit of knowledge have always paid dividends in the long run."
John Glenn after becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, to a joint meeting of Congress
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul."
Luther Burbank, American naturalist and plant breeder
"We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alaskan goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers."
Erwin Chargaff Professor of Biological Chemistry, Columbia University Columbia Forum Summer 1969
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
Stephen Hawking Author, Mathematician, Physicist
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
Galileo Galilei
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. "
C.F. Kettering
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, mathematician and philosopher.
"The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
Thomas Huxley
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock, M.D.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
"If you really want something, work hard, take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way."
Jane Goodall Scientist and Researcher
"What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it"
Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922
"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist
"God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen."
Stephen Hawking English physicist, educator, author He used black holes to help explain universal physical laws in "A Brief History of Time," 1987.
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, mathematician and philosopher.
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
Marie Curie, Polish-French chemist
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