Scientist Quotes

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.
At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.
Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.
I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.
I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.
In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.
It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.
Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.
Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.
Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.
So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.
The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.
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