Haldan Keffer Hartline Quotes

The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.

Many of my friends are scientists.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

Sheik Hilaly is making a good contribution. He is making a good contribution.

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

The sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents.

For me, football is more than a sport, just look at the impact it has on society.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.

There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.

All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.