Scientist Quotes

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue.

They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

Walking is a man's best medicine.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.

Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. Laugh at the Absurdity of Life

People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never right time to do a difficult thing.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.