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.

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

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.

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

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

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.

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.

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.

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

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

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

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

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

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

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.

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

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

The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.

Walking is a man's best medicine.

Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

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

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.