Scientist Quotes

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.

Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.

In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom.

Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Languages are true analytical methods.

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted.

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.

For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.