Scientist Quotes

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

It came to me then in a flash that obviously the temperature of the water was responsible for the nystagmus.

I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole.

Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.

As soon as I had proved this and, of course, also the normal pointing action and reactions in all other extremities and joints, I stopped the experiment.

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

There are lots of other issues in policy including the stem cell issue.

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.

When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.

The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.

I prefer sayings over jokes.

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

I love all of the Earth.