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Scientist Quotations Index for Initial A

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Antoine-Thomson d� Abbadie
Edward Abbey
Henry Abbey
Cleveland Abbe
Donald P. Abbott
Edwin Abbott Abbott
John Stevens Cabot Abbott
William O. Abbott
C. G. Abbot
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Abd-er-Rahman
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Inshirah Abdur-Ra�uf
Peter Abelard
Hal Abelson
Philip Abelson
John Jacob Abel
Niels Henrik Abel
Lascelles Abercrombie
John Abernethy
ABET
Swami Abhedananda
Sir Adolphe Abrahams
Karl Abraham
Rudy Abramson
AbulFazl ibn Mubarak
Goodman Ace
Franz Karl Achard
Russell Lincoln Ackoff
Theodore Dyke Acland
Lord John Acton
Loren Acton
Gilbert Adair
Cecil Adams
Douglas Noel Adams
Henry Brooks Adams
John Couch Adams
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Mike Adams
Roger Adams
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Scott Adams
John A. Adam
Joseph Addison
Thomas Addis
Adelard of Bath
Konrad Adenauer
Jamie (JME) Adenuga
George Ade
Homer Burton Adkins
Alfred Adler
Alfred W. Adler
Francis Heed Adler
Freda Schaffer Adler
Irving Adler
Jerry Adler
Marty Adler
Mortimer Adler
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Baron Edgar Douglas Adrian
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Franz (Maria Ulrich Theodor Hoch) Aepinus
Aeschylus
Aetius of Antioch
Abhilasha Agarwal
Louis Agassiz
Agathemerus
Agathon
Derek Ager
Georgius Agricola
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
James B. Aguayo-Martel
AIChE
Conrad Aiken
George Aiken
Howard Hathaway Aiken
John Aikin
Sir George Biddell Airy
Mark Akenside
Akhenaten
Leon Battista Alberti
Saint Magnus Albertus
William P. Albrecht
Fuller Albright
Alcmaeon
A. Bronson Alcott
John R. Alden
Brian Aldiss
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Buzz Aldrin
Aleksandr Aleksandrov
Pavel Sergeevich Aleksandrov
Czar Alexander, III
Alexander of Tralles
Ernst F.W. Alexanderson
Alexander the Great
Christopher Alexander
Samuel Alexander
Thea Alexander
George Alexiou
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov
Alfonso X of Castile
King Alfred The Great
Hannes Alfv�n
W. R. Alger
Nelson Algren
Alhazan
Muhammad Ali
Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
Jim Allchin
Warder Clyde Allee
Claude J. All�gre
Carl B. Allendoerfer
Charles Mengel Allen
David Elliston Allen
Ethan Allen
Joseph P. Allen, IV
Paul Allen
Tom Allen
Woody Allen
Stacy Allison
David B. Allman
William F. Allman
Gordon Allport
Hely Hutchinson Almond
Stewart Alsop, Jr.
Michael Althsuler
Louis Althusser
Jesefina Alvarez
Luis W. Alvarez
Walter Alvarez
John Amatt
Saint Ambrose
American Cancer Society
Bruce Nathan Ames
Fisher Ames
Greg Ames
Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel
Guillaume Amontons
Andr�-Marie Amp�re
Roald Amundsen
Anagram
Anaxagoras
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Anthony B. Anderson
Carl David Anderson
Clinton P Anderson
Don L. Anderson
Sir (William) Eric Kinloch Anderson
Greg Anderson
John Allan Dalrymple Anderson
Lorraine Anderson
Philip W. Anderson
Poul (William) Anderson
Richard Dean Anderson
Terry Anderson
Herbert George Andrewartha
Sir Christopher Howard Andrewes
Sir Frederick William Andrewes
George E. Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews
Thomas Andrews
Barbara De Angelis
Maya Angelou
William S. Anglin
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Thomas Annandale
Mary Anning
Anonymous
Robert Anthony
Antiphanes
Antisthines
Association Of American Colleges
Anonymous Aphorism
John Apley
Guillaume Apollinaire
Apollonius
Sir Edward Appleton
Bryan Appleyard
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Fran�ois Arago
Karl Arbeiter
Michael A. Arbib
Petronius Arbiter
John Arbuthnot
Archilochus
Archimedes
Archytas
Robert Ardrey
Giovanni Arduino
Aretaeus of Cappadocia
�mile Argand
Aristarchus
Aristippus The Cyrenaic
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Alan Arkin
Sir Richard Arkwright
Edwin Armstrong
Henry Edward Armstrong
John Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
Sir William George Armstrong
Rudolf Arnheim
Friedrich Arnold
Henry H. Arnold
James R. Arnold
Matthew Arnold
Thomas Arnold
Vladimir Arnold
Arnold B. Arons
Halton Christian Arp
Svante Arrhenius
Ar-Rumi
Antonin Artaud
Emil Artin
Yuri Artyukhin
ASCE
Roger Ascham
Asclepiades
Roger Asham
Sir Eric Ashby
Richard Alan John Asher
Mary Kay Ash
Isaac Asimov
Greg Asner
Joseph Aspdin
Ezras A. Asratyan
Lincoln Highway Association
William Thomas Astbury
Francis William Aston
Dana Winslow Atchley
Michael Francis Atiyah
Brooks Atkinson
Stuart Atkinson
Peter William Atkins
John Light Atlee
Sir David Attenborough
Clement Attlee
Wilbur Olin Atwater
Margaret Atwood
John Aubrey
Wystan Hugh Auden
John James Audubon
Josef Leopold Auenbrugger
Stan Augarten
Norman R. Augustine
Saint Aurelius Augustinus Augustine
Marcus Antoninus Aurelius
Jane Austen
David Austin
Averroes
Oswald Avery
Avicenna
Saint Teresa of Avila
Count of Quaregna Amedeo Avogadro
Alfred Jules (A.J.) Ayer
Washington O. Ayer
Wallace Ruddell (W.R.) Aykroyd
Pam Ayres
Hertha Marks Ayrton
William Edward Ayrton


Carl Sagan Thumbnail In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. (1987) -- Carl Sagan
Quotations by:Albert EinsteinIsaac NewtonLord KelvinCharles DarwinSrinivasa RamanujanCarl SaganFlorence NightingaleThomas EdisonAristotleMarie CurieBenjamin FranklinWinston ChurchillGalileo GalileiSigmund FreudRobert BunsenLouis PasteurTheodore RooseveltAbraham LincolnRonald ReaganLeonardo DaVinciMichio KakuKarl PopperJohann GoetheRobert OppenheimerCharles Kettering  ... (more people)

Quotations about:Atomic  BombBiologyChemistryDeforestationEngineeringAnatomyAstronomyBacteriaBiochemistryBotanyConservationDinosaurEnvironmentFractalGeneticsGeologyHistory of ScienceInventionJupiterKnowledgeLoveMathematicsMeasurementMedicineNatural ResourceOrganic ChemistryPhysicsPhysicianQuantum TheoryResearchScience and ArtTeacherTechnologyUniverseVolcanoVirusWind PowerWomen ScientistsX-RaysYouthZoology  ... (more topics)
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Sophie Germain
Gertrude Elion
Ernest Rutherford
James Chadwick
Marcel Proust
William Harvey
Johann Goethe
John Keynes
Carl Gauss
Paul Feyerabend
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Antoine Lavoisier
Lise Meitner
Charles Babbage
Ibn Khaldun
Euclid
Ralph Emerson
Robert Bunsen
Frederick Banting
Andre Ampere
Winston Churchill
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John Locke
Bronislaw Malinowski
Bible
Thomas Huxley
Alessandro Volta
Erwin Schrodinger
Wilhelm Roentgen
Louis Pasteur
Bertrand Russell
Jean Lamarck
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Samuel Morse
John Wheeler
Nicolaus Copernicus
Robert Fulton
Pierre Laplace
Humphry Davy
Thomas Edison
Lord Kelvin
Theodore Roosevelt
Carolus Linnaeus
- 60 -
Francis Galton
Linus Pauling
Immanuel Kant
Martin Fischer
Robert Boyle
Karl Popper
Paul Dirac
Avicenna
James Watson
William Shakespeare
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Stephen Hawking
Niels Bohr
Nikola Tesla
Rachel Carson
Max Planck
Henry Adams
Richard Dawkins
Werner Heisenberg
Alfred Wegener
John Dalton
- 40 -
Pierre Fermat
Edward Wilson
Johannes Kepler
Gustave Eiffel
Giordano Bruno
JJ Thomson
Thomas Kuhn
Leonardo DaVinci
Archimedes
David Hume
- 30 -
Andreas Vesalius
Rudolf Virchow
Richard Feynman
James Hutton
Alexander Fleming
Emile Durkheim
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Hooke
Charles Kettering
- 20 -
Carl Sagan
James Maxwell
Marie Curie
Rene Descartes
Francis Crick
Hippocrates
Michael Faraday
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Francis Bacon
Galileo Galilei
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Aristotle
John Watson
Rosalind Franklin
Michio Kaku
Isaac Asimov
Charles Darwin
Sigmund Freud
Albert Einstein
Florence Nightingale
Isaac Newton


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