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Scientist Quotations Index for Initial L

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Jean de La Bruyère
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
Jacques Lacan
David L. Lack
Charles-Marie de La Condamine
Henri-Dominique Lacordaire
Rudolph Ladenburg
Ren� La�nnec
Raphael Aloysius Lafferty
Jean de La Fontaine
Adela�de Blaise Fran�ois Le Li�vre de La Grange
Count Joseph-Louis de Lagrange
Fiorello La Guardia
R. D. Laing
Charles-Ange Laisant
Imre Lakatos
J�r�me Lalande
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Dalai Lama
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Charles Lamb
Sir Horace Lamb
William Lamb (Lord Melbourne)
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Norman Lamm
Louis L'Amour
Emil Lampe
Karl Gottfried Lamprecht
Agrippa Menenius Lanatus
Cornelius Lanczos
Edmund Landau
Susan Landau
David S. Landes
Geoffrey A. Landis
Peter Theodore Landsberg
Karl Landsteiner
Edwin Herbert Land
Jennifer Land
Rose Wilder Lane
Guido Lanfranchi
Rudoph E. Langer.
Susanne K. Langer
Paul Langevin
William Langland
Edward Mann Langley
John Langley
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Alexander Langmuir
Irving Langmuir
Andrew Lang
Serge Lang
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
Robert Lanza
Isaac de la Peyr�re
Lewis H. Lapham
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Francis Lapp�
Ralph Eugene Lapp
Charles Lapworth
Fran�ois de La Rochefoucauld
Christopher Lasch
Tommy Lasorda
Harold Dwight Lasswell
Peter Mere Latham
Lewis Latimer
Maria La Touche
Max von Laue
Peter J. Laurence
William L. Laurence
Andr� Du Laurens
Auguste Laurent
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Alphonse Laveran
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
D.H. Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
T. E. Lawrence
William Lawrence
William Law
Moritz Lazarus
Sir Edmund Ronald Leach
Stephen Leacock
Admiral William D. Leahy
Louis S.B. Leakey
Mary Douglas Leakey
Richard E. Leakey
Mary Leapor
Timothy Francis Leary
Edward Lear
William P. Lear
Valentin Lebedev
Henri-L�on Lebesgue
Gustave Le Bon
Fran Lebowitz
William Lecky
Pierre Lecomte du No�y
Joseph LeConte
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Charles Lederer
Leon M. Lederman
Robert S. Ledley
Daniel Lednicer
Jack J. Leedy
Arie Leegwater
Sybil Leek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Tsung-Dao Lee
Yuan T. Lee
Arthur Lefevre
Julien Jean César Legallois
Adrien-Marie Legendre
Jacques Le Goff
Ursula K. Le Guin
Inge Lehmann
Arnold Lehman
Tom Lehrer
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Ludwig Leichhardt
Joseph Leidy
Murray Leinster
William Leitch
Fran�ois Le Lionnais
Luis Federico Leloir
Monsignor Georges Lema�tre
Nicolas L�mery
Philipp Lenard
Vladimir Lenin
Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones
John Lennon
William J. le Noble
Aleksei Leonov
Aldo Leopold
Arthur Lerner
Max Lerner
Alaine René Le Sage
Sir John Leslie
Vicomte Ferdinand, de Lesseps
King Stanislaus Leszcynski
Stanislaw I Leszczynski
David Letterman
Jerome Ysroael Lettvin
Leucippus
Rudolf Leuckart
Simon LeVay
Aaron Levenstein
William Lever
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Richard Levins
Cyrus Levithal
Lowell S. Levin
Claude L�vi-Strauss
Carolina Levis
Theodore Levitt
Primo Levi
Hyman Levy
George Henry Lewes
Kurt Lewin
Peter Lewin
Roger Lewin
C.S. Lewis
George Cornewall Lewis
Gilbert Newton Lewis
Ron Lewis
Sir Thomas Lewis
Warren K. Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
Richard Lewontin
William Leybourn
Willy Ley
Andreas Libavius
Willard Frank Libby
Albert J. Libchaber
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
J.C.R. Licklider
James Lick
Justus von Liebig
John H. Lienhard
Sophus Lie
Gy�rgi Ligeti
Lightning Seeds
David E. Lilienthal
Otto Lilienthal
Sam Lilley
John C. Lilly
Gordon G. Lill
Abraham Lincoln
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindbergh
Frederick Alexander Lindemann (Lord Cherwell)
Aristid Lindenmayer
Carl E. Linderholm
Susan Lindquist
Sten Lindroth
S. E. Lindsay
James Lind
Sam Linial
John E. Link
Carolus Linnaeus
Bonnie Lin
Maya Ying Lin
Lion King
Joseph Liouville
Gabriel Lippmann
Walter Lippmann
Holly Lisle
Lord Joseph Lister
Dudley E. Littlewood
J. E. Littlewood
Arthur D. Little
Charles E. Little
Clarence Cook Little
Dame Penelope Lively
Grey Livingston
David Lloyd George
Nikolay Ivanovich Lobachevsky
John Locke
Francis Lockier
Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge
Jacques Loeb
Friedrich August Johannes Loeffler
Bert James Loewenberg
Otto Loewi
Raymond Loewy
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov
Heinz London
Jack London
Malcolm Sim Longair
Warfield Theobald Longcope
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Jack Longino
Chester R. Longwell
Lazarus Long
Henry Lonsdale
Dame Kathleen Lonsdale
Edward Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
Joseph Loschmidt
Hermann Rudolph Lotze
H. P. Lovecraft
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
Thomas E. Lovejoy
Sir Bernard Lovell
Jim Lovell
James Lovelock
Joseph Lovering
Jason Love
Amory B. Lovins
L. Hunter Lovins
James Russell Lowell
Percival Lowell
Robert H. Lowie
John Lubbock (Lord Avebury)
Keith Lucas
Lucian of Samosa
Titus Lucretius
Reuben Ludlam
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig
Rolf Luft
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Joanna Lumley
Salvador Luria
Martin Luther
Bob Lutz
André Michel Lwoff
Wadimir Lyakhov
Sir Charles Lyell
Arthur Lynch
Robert Staughton Lynd
Oren Lyons


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
- 70 -
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
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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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