Scientist Quotes

You won't remember what it was like when your technology didn't recognize when you are sad or angry.
Your emotions are very personal, as personal as your data gets.
Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.
Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.
Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.
The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.
When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
If you want to build an open source project, you can't let your ego stand in the way. You can't rewrite everybody's patches, you can't second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control.
I'm OK with procedural code, and the web is a top-down type of problem. It makes sense to me that you have HTML, you spit out a bunch of HTML, then you call a function to do something and then call another function.
I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension?
Personally, I tend to be more interested in security and performance-related issues than other things.
Every time four protons are turned into a helium nucleus, two neutrinos are produced. These neutrinos take only two seconds to reach the surface of the Sun and another eight minutes or so to reach the Earth. Thus, neutrinos tell us what happened in the center of the Sun eight minutes ago.
I was educated in the Washington public schools and attended the University of Maryland as a day student, graduating in 1938 with a degree in chemistry. After working for the Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan, for a year, I returned to the University of Maryland to take a Master's degree before going on to Yale to pursue a doctorate.
In high school and college, I gathered a number of medals for marksmanship, but I have long since abandoned this activity, having concluded that the world would be a better place with fewer sharpshooters.
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