Scientist Quotes

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

Observe which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling and you are likely to have identified the side with the weaker argument and they know it.