Scientist Quotes

I am proud of my work for my country.

I am not a madman or a nut.

No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.

The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.

Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels.

It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.

We must... guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.

Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction.

Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.