Scientist Quotes

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.

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.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

Politics is applied biology.

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.

We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.