Scientist Quotes

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.
That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.
The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere.
To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.
When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.
You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.
You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.
You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.
Scientists are human, they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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