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Who said: “Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.”
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Scientist Quotations Index for Initial B

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Walter Baade
Johann Hermann Baas
Charles Babbage
Bruce Babbitt
Roger Babson
Meher Bab
Lauren Bacall
Gaston Bachelard
Richard (David) Bach
Sir Francis Bacon
Roger Bacon
Michael Badnarik
Leo Baeck
Leo Hendrik Baekeland
Karl Ernst von Baer
Adolf von Baeyer
Walter Bagehot
Byrd Baggett
Giorgio Baglivi
John N. Bahcall
Pat Bahn
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Pearl Bailey
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Francis Baily
Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge
Mary Baines
Alexander Bain
Spencer Fullerton Baird
Henry Baker
Ray Stannard Baker
Russell Wayne Baker
Robert Bakewell
Will Bakewell
Robert T. Bakker
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
Antoine J. Balard
John Balderston
Jacob Balde
Sir Jack Balwin
James Mark Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin
Stephen Baldwin
Arthur Balfour
Francis Maitland Balfour
J. G. Ballard
Robert Ballard
Thomas M. Balliet
Eric Glendinning Ball
John Ball
W.W.R. Ball
David Baltimore
Honor� de Balzac
Stefan Banach
Wilder Dwight Bancroft
Nancy Banks-Smith
Sir Joseph Banks
Benjamin Banneker
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
John Banville
Alvan L. Barach
Margaret Fairless Barber
Robert Barclay
John Bardeen
Sam Bardell
Charles Barden
Mike Barfield
Owen Barfield
Joel A. Barker
John Perry Barlow
Peter Barlow
Christiaan Barnard
Julian Barnes
Lincoln Barnett
Percy Arthur Barnett
Victor Barnouw
Michael F. Barnsley
Joseph Barrell
Norman Rupert Barrett
Sir James Matthew Barrie
Isaac Barrow
John D. Barrow
John Barrymore
Dave Barry
Amelia E Barr
Roland Barthes
George A. Bartholomew
David W. Bartlett
Elisha Bartlett
Sir Frederic Bartlett
Paul Doughty Bartlett
John-David Bartoe
Bruce Barton
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
Paul Bartsch
Bernard M(annes) Baruch
Jacques Barzun
Florence Bascom
Sir Henry Howarth Bashford
Saint Basil the Great
Agostino Bassi
Adolf Bastian
Gregory Bateson
H. W. Bates
Marston Bates
Mark Batterson
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Jean Baudrillard
Henry Bauer
L. Frank Baum
Larry Baum
Richard Baxter
Thomas Bayes
Sir William Bayliss
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette
Ivan P. Bazarov
Alfred Beach
George Beadle
Alan R. Beals
Alan L. Bean
William B. Bean
Tim Beardsley
Miriam Beard
Gregory (Dale) Bear
Cecil Beaton
George H. Beaton
James Beattie
Edm� Pierre Beauch�ne
William Beaumont
Simone de Beauvoir
Giambatista Beccaria
Johann Joachim Becher
Carl L. Becker
Samuel Beckett
Johann Beckmann
Petr Beckmann
Michael Beckwith
William S. Beck
Pierre Béclard
Henri Becquerel
Henri Becque
Dr. Thomas Beddoes
Bede
William Beebe
Henry Ward Beecher
Lyman Beecher
Sir Max Beerbohm
Edward Griffith Begle
Samuel Nathaniel (S.N.) Behrman
Martinus Willem Beijerinck
Georg von B�k�sy
Frederik Belinfante
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinskii
Guy Bellamy
Roberto Bellarmino
Nicholas Belleville
Hilaire Belloc
Alex Bellos
Saul Bellow
Francis Bello
Alexander Graham Bell
Sir Charles Bell
Clive Bell
Eric Temple Bell
Florence Ogilvy Bell
C. Gordon Bell
John Stewart Bell, II
Thomas Bell
Vladimir Vladimirovich Belousov
Scott Belsky
Eugenio Beltrami
Edouard van Beneden
Ruth Benedict
Gregory (Albert) Benford
Walter Bendix Sch�nflies Benjamin
Alan Benner
Alan Bennett
Jeremy Bentham
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Richard Bentley
Seymour Benzer
Anatoli Berezovoy
Peter L. Berger
Thomas Berger
Peter Bergmann
Stefan Bergman
Torbern Olof Bergman
Henri Louis Bergson
Sune K. Bergstr�m
Yehuda Berg
Edmund Berkeley
George Berkeley
Milton Berle
Louis A(rthur) Berman
John Desmond Bernal
Bernard of Chartres
Claude Bernard
Tim Berners-Lee
Sarah Bernhardt
Daniel Bernoulli
Jacob Bernoulli
Johann Bernoulli
Jeremy Bernstein
Yogi Berra
Norman John Berrill
Norman John Berrill
Wendell Berry
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Marcellin Berthelot
Pierre Bertholon
Joseph Bertrand
Marcel-Alexandre Bertrand
J�ns Jacob Berzelius
Abram S. Besicovitch
Sir Henry Bessemer
Henry Beston
Henry Beston
Charles Best
Toba Beta
Hans Albrecht Bethe
Bruno Bettelheim
W. I. B. Beveridge
Homi J. Bhabha
S.S. Bhatnagar
Bible
Xavier Bichat
Ambrose Bierce
August Bier
Erastus Brigham Bigelow
Henry Jacob Bigelow
Earl Derr Biggers
Hermann M. Biggs
John Jeremiah Bigsby
Norman C. Billingham
Henry Billingsley
John Shaw Billings
Josh Billings
David Billington
Theodor Billroth
Alfred Binet
Hiram Bingham
R.H. Bing
Ludwig Binswanger
Jean-Baptiste Biot
Nick Birch
Vannoccio Biringuccio
Al- Biruni
Jim Bishop
J. Michael Bishop
Otto von Bismarck
Black Elk
Patrick M.S. Blackett
Richard Blackmore
Sir William Blackstone
Eliot Blackwelder
Richard E. Blackwelder
Elizabeth Blackwell
Richard J. Blackwell
Brent Black (Brentalfloss)
Sir James Black
Joseph Black
Henri de Blainville
Anthony Charles Lynton (Tony) Blair
Colin Blakemore
William Blake
Alfred Blalock
Sir Gilbert Blane
Brand Blanshard
Andrey Blasov
Marguerite Blessington
Irish Blessing
Eugen Bleuler
Mathilde Blind
Baroness Karen Blixen
Arthur Bloch
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Peter of Blois
Leonard Bloomfield
Howard Bloom
Lionel Blue
Guion S. Bluford, Jr.
Robert Bly
Jeffrey Boam
Franz Boas
Maxime B�cher
Salomon Bochner
Jean Bodin
William E. Boeing
LMK Boelter
Hermann Boerhaave
Paul Boese
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Nils Bohlin
David Bohm
Henry George Bohn
Craig F. Bohren
Niels Bohr
Louis de Boissy
Bart J. Bok
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Viscount Bolingbroke
Louis Bolk
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann
Farkas Bolyai
J�nos Bolyai
Bernhard Bolzano
Ludwig Bolzmann
Alain Bombard
Erma Bombeck
Princess Marie Bonaparte
Emperor Napol�on Bonaparte
Roberta Bondar
Sir Hermann Bondi
Charles Bonnet
Thomas George Bonney
Chris Bonnington
William Bowen Bonnor
Murray Bookchin
George Boole
Mary Everest Boole
Daniel J. Boorstin
Sean Booth
Jesse Boot
Gail Borden
Peter Borden
Jules Bordet
�mile Borel
James H. Boren
Jorge Luis Borges
Victor Borge
Edwin G. Boring
Norman Ernest Borlaug
Frank Borman
Max Born
Joan Borysenko
Jean-Baptiste Georges Marie Bory de Saint-Vincent
Carl Bosch
Roger Joseph Boscovich
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose
Rudjer Boskovic
James Boswell
Walther Bothe
Daniel B. Botkin
Phyllis Bottome
Alain de Botton
Henri Bouasse
Alfred Bougeard
Kenneth Ewart Boulding
Nicolas-Antoine Boullanger
Matthew Boulton
Nicolas Bourbaki
Ben Bova
Theodor Boveri
H. P. Bowditch
Nathaniel Bowditch
Elizabeth Bowen
James Bower
Linda Bowles
George E.P. Box
John P. Boyd
Herbert Boyer
James Boyle
Robert Boyle
Zabdiel Boylston
C. Loring Brace
Leigh (Douglass) Brackett
William Bracket
Ray Bradbury
Francis Herbert Bradley
John Bradley
Omar Nelson Bradley
Claude F. Bragdon
Sir Lawrence Bragg
Sir William Bragg
Georges Brague
Tycho Brahe
Brahmagupta
Joseph Bramah
Gerald Eyre Kirkwood (G.E.K.) Branch
Louis Brandeis
Marlon Brando
Georg Brandt
Lewis M. Branscomb
Georges Braque
Walter H. Brattain
Ernest Braun
Volker Braun
Wernher von Braun
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Bertolt Brecht
Scipione Breislak
P�l Brekke
Sydney Bremer
Sydney Brenner
Marvin Bressler
Robert Bresson
Andr� Breton
Sir David Brewster
Aristide Briand
Robert Bridges
Percy W. Bridgman
John P. Briggs
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Ashleigh Brilliant
David Brin
Sergey Brin
Claude M. Bristol
Charlie Dunbar Broad
William J. Broad
Paul Broca
Giovanni Battista Brocchi
Bertram N. Brockhouse
William H(odson) Brock
Samuel Broder
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie
Peter Bellinger Brodie
Joseph Brodsky
Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie
D. Allan Bromley
Jacob Bronowski
Frederick P. Brooks
Harriet Brooks
William Broome
Robert Broom
Jacques Brosse
Joyce Brothers
Lord Henry Peter Brougham
Paul Broun
David Brower
Baker Brownell
Harry Browne
Peter Browne
Sir Thomas Browne
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Alexander Crum Brown
Carl William Brown
Curt Brown
Dan Brown
David M. Brown
George Harold Brown
George P. Brown
Gordon Stanley Brown
Herbert C. Brown
Heywood Brown
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Sir John Brown
Les Brown
Norman Oliver Brown
Olympia Brown
Rita Mae Brown
Robert Brown
Robert Hanbury Brown
Traci Brown
Ernst Wilhelm von Br�cke
Eduard Br�ckner
Avery Brundage
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Jerome Bruner
Ferdinand Brunetière
John (Kilian Houston) Brunner
Giordana Bruno
Giordano Bruno
L�on Brunschvicg
William Cullen Bryant
William Jennings Bryan
Sir James Bryce
Bill Bryson
Martin Buber
Scott Milross Buchanan
John Buchan
Eduard Buchner
Ludwig B�chner
Elizabeth J. Buchtenkirk
Leopold von Buch
William Buckland
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Henry Thomas Buckle
Pearl S. Buck
Buddha
Gautama Buddha
William Budd
Budha
Warren Buffett
Comte Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Lois McMaster Bujold
Sir Edward Bullard
A. H. Reginald Buller
William Bulloch
Theodore Holmes Bullock
Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Bumpersticker
Robert Bunsen
Basil Bunting
Luis Bu�uel
John Bunyan
Luther Burbank
Jacob Christopher Burckhardt
Warren Burger
Edmund Burke
James Burke
Heinrich Burkhardt
Denis Burkitt
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Gilbert Burnet
Sir Macfarlane Burnet
Thomas Burnet
Daniel H. Burnham
Robert Burns
Bailey B. Burritt
Elijah H. Burritt
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edward Burroughs
John Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs
Harold L. Burstyn
Sir Richard Burton
Robert Burton
Sir Cyril Burt
Leo Buscaglia
Horace Bushnell
Barbara Bush
George W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush
George W. Bush
Vannevar Bush
W. Deane Butcher
Aleksandr Butlerov
Joseph Butler
Judith Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler
Herbert Butterfield
Charles Buxton
W. E. Byerly
Richard Byrd
Lord George Gordon Byron
John By


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
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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
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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
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Pierre Fermat
Edward Wilson
Johannes Kepler
Gustave Eiffel
Giordano Bruno
JJ Thomson
Thomas Kuhn
Leonardo DaVinci
Archimedes
David Hume
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Andreas Vesalius
Rudolf Virchow
Richard Feynman
James Hutton
Alexander Fleming
Emile Durkheim
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Hooke
Charles Kettering
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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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