We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.Carl Jung
My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.Stephen Hawking
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.Richard Dawkins
When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
Three-fourths of the universe is hydrogen, and oxygen is incredibly abundant, too. So H2O is something you can find nearly everywhere.Seth Shostak
I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.Bill Gates
Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.Richard Feynman
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.Theodore Roosevelt
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.Noam Chomsky
