Scientist Quotes

Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

Economics is not brain surgery.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.

Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the advent of this nation, men were walking on the moon, and I want us to recognize this is the kind of people that we are. We're creative with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of energy.

And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.