Quotes by Scientists - Page 4

I’m a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery.

Hunter Westley, you can’t just go around kissing people. She’s so cute.Not people Lenora, just you. Only you.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

The leaves of the world comprise countless billion elaborations of a single, simple machine designed for one job only – a job upon which hinges humankind. Leaves make sugar. Plants are the only things in the universe that can make sugar out of nonliving inorganic matter. All the sugar that you have ever eaten was first made within a leaf. Without a constant supply of glucose to your brain, you will die. Period. Under duress, your liver can make glucose out of protein or fat – but that protein or fat was originally constructed from a plant sugar within some other animal. It’s inescapable: at this very moment, within the synapses of your brain, leaves are fueling thoughts of leaves.

Gomst's mouth framed a 'no', but every other muscle in him said 'yes'. You'd think priests would be better liars, what with their jobs and all.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest.

Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

It’s an old story, amigo mío. Be careful of those closest to you because they can do the most damage.

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.