Scientist Quotes

Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.

We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis.

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.

Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.

When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.

We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.

We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team.

The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.