English Scientist Quotations

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it.

With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.

I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.

I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.

I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.

I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.

It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first.

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.

Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock.

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that.

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

They were of many types of seals, all bearing the insignia of the King.

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings.

There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them. I planned them, and removed them for investigation below, which undertaking took until the fourth of Nov.

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia.

Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

When we had been a week or two in the city of Mexico, we decided upon making an excursion to the great silver mining district of the Real del Monte.

Yep, I'll stay a Brisbane Lion, you've heard it first.

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

So I think that as science is organized in Japan at the moment it will not make a great deal of headway in innovative science. That's my own opinion.

So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research.

Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day - some sweet day.

My life at this time was pretty much one of hard work and steady attention to business, from which I could only snatch short intervals.

My favourite quality workout is 6 X 5 minutes with 1 minute rest between each.

My contribution to quantum chemistry has depended hugely on work by others. The international community in our field is a close one.

Nevertheless, several of my friends have from time to time tried to induce me to write a concise account of my steel invention in my own quiet way.

One of the problems, as you know, is that the Chinese language is not as nuanced as others for dealing with the difference between state and country.

I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars.

I make no doubt but there are three species of the willow-wrens: two I know perfectly; but have not been able yet to procure the third.

I had remained in Cambridge concentrating only on basic research and avoiding as far as possible teaching or administrative responsibilities.

I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here.

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

From 1944 to 1951 I held a Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research, and since 1951 I have been on the staff of the Medical Research Council.

We three chemists here are the most fortunate of Nobel Laureates, many of whom are rewarded after years of patient and painstaking work.

It is a joyous occasion for a scientist when the subject which interests him most is recognised by the highest honour that the world can bestow.

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics.

Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children.

Most importantly, we have more support than any handheld system has ever had that has had to compete with the Playstation brand.

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations.

We are rewarded for work the very essence of which is that we were so impatient that we spent only a millionth of a second over an experiment.

The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

We have been in Victoria for 3 years now after moving here from Vancouver. Victoria is a great place to live and we plan on staying especially as the kids are now in school.

There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

We will migrate as technology migrates, and more often than not, we're the ones leading the technology drive. This product is here to stay.

But our main agenda is really to try to integrate the study of Asia here at Harvard and to play as positive a role as we can in this institution.

The ordinary bronze powder is, as before mentioned, made from an exceedingly thin leaf of beaten metal, resembling an ordinary leaf of gold.