Jon Postel

“Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send”. –Jon Postel

Werner Heisenberg

“Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves”. –Werner Heisenberg

Louis Agassiz

“The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world”. –Louis Agassiz

Otto Hahn

“First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our poisonous gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them”. –Otto Hahn

William Whewell

“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation”. –William Whewell

Linus Pauling

“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away”. –Linus Pauling

Immanuel Kant

“Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee”. –Immanuel Kant

Julian Jaynes

“What is the meaning of life? This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself”. –Julian Jaynes

Pythagoras

“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil”. –Pythagoras

Jonas Salk

“Neither wisdom nor good will is now dominant. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality”. –Jonas Salk

Konrad Zuse

“The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers”. –Konrad Zuse

Louis Pasteur

“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world”. –Louis Pasteur

Lewis Mumford

“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers”. –Lewis Mumford

Jean Henri Fabre

“We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd”. –Jean Henri Fabre

Robert A. Heinlein

“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil”. –Robert A. Heinlein

John Stuart Mill

“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself”. –John Stuart Mill

Herodotus

“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons”. –Herodotus

Thomas Edison

“Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure”. –Thomas Edison

Kristen Nygaard

“The world language is English as spoken by foreigners”. –Kristen Nygaard

Polykarp Kusch

“Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs the world”. –Polykarp Kusch

Charles Darwin

“In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment”. –Charles Darwin

Albert Einstein

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world”. –Albert Einstein

Auguste Comte

“The dead governs the living”. –Auguste Comte

Ivan Pavlov

“Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin”. –Ivan Pavlov

William Petty

“That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World”. –William Petty

John Arbuthnot

“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies”. –John Arbuthnot

Democritus

“By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich”. –Democritus

Francis Bacon

“Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover truth”. –Francis Bacon

Edwin Land

“Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible”. –Edwin Land

Alexis Carrel

“Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself”. –Alexis Carrel

Arthur C. Clarke

“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now”. –Arthur C. Clarke

Wernher von Braun

“Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently”. –Wernher von Braun

H.G. Wells

“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own”. –H.G. Wells

Francis Galton

“One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigor of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands”. –Francis Galton

Aristotle

“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms”. –Aristotle

Edward Thorndike

“Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads; not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race”. –Edward Thorndike

Nicolaus Copernicus

“For I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them”. –Nicolaus Copernicus

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves”. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hedy Lamarr

“Its funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy”. –Hedy Lamarr

Edsger Dijkstra

“Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning”. –Edsger Dijkstra

Niels Bohr

“Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel; for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are”. –Niels Bohr

Ernest Rutherford

“A theory you can’t explain to a bartender is probably no damn good”. –Ernest Rutherford

Isaac Asimov

“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today”. –Isaac Asimov

Max Planck

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it”. –Max Planck

Charles Kettering

“If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it”. –Charles Kettering

Henry David Thoreau

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves”. –Henry David Thoreau

J. Robert Oppenheimer

“The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass, and beyond there is a different country”. –J. Robert Oppenheimer

Bertrand Russell

“War does not determine who is right – only who is left”. –Bertrand Russell

Carl Sagan

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, but merely indifferent”. –Carl Sagan

Thor Heyerdahl

“In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds”. –Thor Heyerdahl

Anaxagoras

“Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun, a hot rock”. –Anaxagoras

George Washington Carver

“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”. –George Washington Carver

Sigmund Freud

“Everywhere that I go I find out that a poet has been there before me”. –Sigmund Freud

Yuri Gagarin

“I see Earth. It is so beautiful”. –Yuri Gagarin