Science Quotes - Page 40

• And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Night, Names

  William Shakespeare, Kathleen Ermitage (2002). “The Tempest”, p.56, Barron's Educational Series

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• Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Children, Winter

  Bertrand Russell (1943). “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity”

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• Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

  James Dyson

  Success, Children, Teaching

  "James Dyson: 'Vacuums are already smarter than people'". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2014.

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• Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.

  William James

  Children, Uprising, Envy

  The Principles of Psychology vol. 1, ch. 4 (1890)

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• I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

  Wernher von Braun

  Children, Moon, Years

  Taped TV interview, broadcast on WMAL, Washington (January 7, 1972), as reported in "Birth of Child on Moon Foreseen by von Braun", New York Times (p. 14), January 7, 1972.

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• It is clear that we cannot go up another two orders of magnitude as we have climbed the last five. If we did, we should have two scientists for every man, woman, child, and dog in the population, and we should spend on them twice as much money as we had. Scientific doomsday is therefore less than a century distant.

  Derek J. de Solla Price

  Dog, Children, Men

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• It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a measure be opened; determination of the child's present status will enable us to forecast what manner of adult he will become.

  Lewis Terman

  Determination, Children, Future

  Lewis Madison Terman (1919). “The Intelligence of School Children: How Children Differ in Ability, the Use of Mental Tests in School Grading and the Proper Education of Exceptional Children”

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• No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.

  H. Bentley Glass

  Children, Future, Parent

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• Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors-they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.

  James P. Hogan

  Children, Thinking, World

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• There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Education, Children, Garden

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• There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach your children to bring them in for themselves. Take your text from the brooks, not from the booksellers.

  Louis Agassiz

  Summer, Country, Children

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• When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are three sorts of human being who are particularly likely still to see point in it and befriend it. They are poets, scientists and children. Inside each of us, I suggest, representatives of all these groups can be found.

  Mary Midgley

  Children, Race, Valleys

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• Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

  Roger Ascham

  Children, Learning, Driven

  'The Schoolmaster' (1570) preface

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• [Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

  Max Delbruck

  Children, Ambitious, Fields

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• A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone to do much thinking or problem solving of military significance. That would leave, say, five years to develop man-computer symbiosis and 15 years to use it. The 15 may be 10 or 500, but those years should be intellectually the most creative and exciting in the history of mankind.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Military, Men, Thinking

  J. C. R. Licklider, Robert W. Taylor (1990). “In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990”

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• I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. Towns and cities, too, which always retain the ghost of their earlier incarnations beneath today's concrete and glass.

  Penelope Lively

  Glasses, Cities, Long

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• Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.

  Isaac Asimov

  Husband, History, Brilliant

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “Asimov on physics”, Doubleday Books

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• The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the hands of man; for the geological record is the work of God.

  Roderick Murchison

  Character, Men, Hands

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• The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Mistake, Law, History

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• There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.

  J. B. Priestley

  Lonely, Typewriters, History

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• The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided they have been successful, to emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and to produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Writing, Successful, Past

  Herbert Butterfield (1931). “The Whig interpretation of history”

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• A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspiration, Coffins, Spirit

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1995). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what appeared to others to be insuperable difficulties: an imagination of the goals of which, in a number of instances, are still in the realms of speculation.

  Edwin Howard Armstrong

  Inspiration, Numbers, Accomplishment

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• You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.

  Barnes Wallis

  Inspiration, Lines, Sides

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