Scientific Achievement Quotes

#1. Why is it that any technological and scientific achievement reached in the Middle East regions is translated into and portrayed as a threat to the Zionist regime? Is not scientific R&D one of the basic rights of nations.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#2. Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#3. Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather than representing a scientific achievement, this probably represents a flaw in our definition.

Gene Spafford

#4. Does it really help to imagine that there is some one full, objective, true account of nature and that the proper measure of scientific achievement is the extent to which it brings us closer to that ultimate goal?

Thomas S. Kuhn

#5. I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.

Amber Tamblyn

#6. I like your spunk. However I am concerned about your gumption.

Mark Anderson

#7. Remember that the subconscious mind has determined the success and wonderful achievements of all great scientific workers.

Joseph Murphy

#8. Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way.

George Sarton

#9. You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God. Isaiah once spoke as follows, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee

John H. Vandenberg

#10. Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic account of the astounding progress of biomedical science during the second half of the 20th century.

Arvid Carlsson

#11. Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs ... many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#12. Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

Vannevar Bush

#13. The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.

Ha-Joon Chang

#14. Do people your age know how to comb their fucking hair? It looks like two squirrels crawled on their head and started fucking.

Justin Halpern

#15. I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.

Charles Mayo

#16. Gotta get rid of these free radicals, but first I need to figure out what they are.

Dov Davidoff

#17. The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian roots, thereby becoming rootless itself.

Walter Kasper

#18. I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities.

Stephen Bayley