Quotes of: Galileo Keyword

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

Francis Crick

A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.

Francis Crick

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it." [As quoted in , April 25, 2011]

Francis Crick

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

Freeman Dyson

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

Freeman Dyson

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Freeman Dyson

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

Freeman Dyson

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.

Freeman Dyson

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

Fabiola Gianotti

The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it.

Fabiola Gianotti

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

Felix Klein

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker. [ ]

Fritz Zwicky

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

Clement Clarke Moore

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

Clifford Stoll

Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.

Clyde Tombaugh

When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.

James Cronin

I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.

James Cronin

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Desmond Tutu

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Desmond Tutu

Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

Desmond Tutu

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

Desmond Tutu