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Scientist Quotations Index for Initial S

This dictionary includes science quotes from archaeologists, biologists, chemists, geologists, inventors and inventions, mathematicians, physicists plus pioneers in medicine, science events and technology.

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Eliel Saarinen
Paul Sabatier
Florence Rena Sabin
Julius von Sachs
SA Sachs
Oliver Sacks
Ikhwan al-Safa
Truman Henry Safford
Carl Safina
Carl Sagan
Mark Sagoff
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry
Henri de Saint-Simon
Kin-ichiro Sakaguchi
Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov
Abdus Salam
Enric Sala
J.D. Salinger
John of Salisbury
Jonas Salk
Bob Samples
Bengt I. Samuelsson
Arthur L. Samuel
Allan Rex Sandage
Carl Sandburg
Michael J. Sandel
Samuel T. Sanders
George Sand
Frederick Sanger
Margaret Sanger
George Santayana
Edward Sapir
Vikram Sarabhai
Epes Sargent
David Sarnoff
George (Alfred Léon) Sarton
Joel Sartore
Sadako Sasaki
Swami Satchidananda
bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
Simon Saunders
Horace Bénédict de Saussure
Thomas Savery
W.W. Sawyer
Dorothy L. Sayers
French Saying
Buddhist
Jewish Saying
John Schaar
Andre Schaeffer
George B. Schaller
Robert Haven Schauffler
Arthur L. Schawlow
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Karl Heinrich Schellbach
Phillip F. Schewe
Susan Schiefelbein
Friedrich Schiller
Wally Schirra
Friedrich von Schlegel
Jacob Mathias Schlelden
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Laura Schlesinger
Mary Schmich
Maarten Schmidt
Harrison Hagan Schmitt
Andrew Schneider
Claudine Schneider
Michael S. Schneider
Friedrich Karl Ludwig Schoedler
Robert Schoenfeld
Rudolf Schoenheimer
Christian Friedrich Sch�nbein
19th Century Schoolboy Blunders
Arthur Schopenhauer
David N. Schramm
Erwin Schr�dinger
Gerald L. Schroeder
Hermann Schubert
Charles Schuchert
Max Schultze
Charles Schultz
Dwight Schultz
Ernst Friedrich (Fritz) Schumacher
Carl Schurz
Sir Arthur Schuster
Montgomery Schuyler
Theodor Schwann
Edward Schwartz
Melvin Schwartz
Silvan S. Schweber
Russell Schweickart
Georg August Schweinfurth
Albert Schweitzer
Julian Seymour Schwinger
Agostino Scilla
John T. Scopes
Scotty
David Scott
Frank Scott
Robert Falcon Scott
Michael Scriven
Charles R. Scriver
George Julius Poulett Scrope
Glenn T. Seaborg
Paul B. Sears
Ivan Mikhaylovich Sechenov
Adam Sedgwick
Charles S�dillot
Sir John R. Seeley
Corrado Segre
Emilio Segr�
Edouard S�guin
Keith L. Seitter
Frederick Seitz
John Selden
Coleman Sellers
Hans Selye
Richard Selzer
Ignaz Semmelweis
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Antoine �tienne Reynaud Augustin Serres
Jean-Pierre Serre
François-Joseph Servois
Ernest Thompson Seton
Gino Severini
Anne Sexton
Hans Seyle
Frances Seymour
Robert H. Shaffer
William Shakespeare
Tupac Shakur
Edward Shanks
Claude Elwood Shannon
Harry L. Shapiro
Harlow Shapley
Dallas Lore Sharp
William Shatner
George Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
James Byrnie Shaw
Peter Shaw
Christopher Shays
Robert Sheckley
Fulton J. Sheen
Mary Shelley
Percy Shelley
Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
John Shepard
Cybill Shepherd
R.Z. Sheppard
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Allan Sherman
Michael Shermer
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
Donald Shimoda
Sir Arthur E. Shipley
Michelle Shocked
William B. Shockley
Gene Shoemaker
Johann Lukas Schönlein
Christopher Latham Sholes
Solomon Short
Seth Shostak
Gwynne Shotwell
R. Sargent Shriver
Herman Shugart
Clifford G. Shull
Jason A. Shulman
Max Shulman
Diordorus Siculus
Nevil Vincent Sidgwick
Sir William Siemens
Lydia Howard Sigourney
Igor I. Sikorsky
Benjamin Silliman
Benjamin Silliman, Jr.
George F. Simmons
William J. Simmons
Herbert Alexander Simon
Max Simon
Ted Simon
The Simpsons
George Gaylord Simpson
Joe Simpson
Myre Sim
Iain Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair
June Singer
Bhagat Singh
Simon Singh
Giovanni Benedetto Sinibaldi
Robert Sinsheimer
Willem de Sitter
Walter W. Skeat
James W. Skehan
B. F. Skinner
Herman Skolnik
Anakin Skywalker
Jonathan Michael Wyndham Slack
Herbert Ellsworth Slaught
Sir Hans Sloane
Edwin Emery Slosson
Stephen Smale
Richard E. Smalley
Christopher Smart
John Smeaton
Alfred Smee
William Smellie
Samuel Smiles
James Smithson
Adam Smith
Adam Smith (pseudonym)
Charles Merrill Smith
David Eugene Smith
Henry Louis Smith
Henry John Stephen Smith
Homer William Smith
Lamar S. Smith
Lillian Smith
Michael Smith
Oliver H. Smith
Sydney Smith
Theobald Smith
Virginia B. Smith
Willard A. Smith
William Smith
Tobias George Smollett
Frank Smythe
Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
Baron C.P. Snow
John Snow
John W. Snow
Ascanio Sobrero
Socrates
Frederick Soddy
William Johnson Sollas
King Solomon
Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville
Arnold Sommerfeld
Jos� Carlos Somoza
Susan Sontag
Sophocles
Ogyū Sorai
Sosigenes
Michael Soule
Paul Souriau
Robert Southey
Thomas Sowell
Gene Spafford
Lazzaro Spallanzani
Nicholas Sparks
Muriel Spark
Ronald Spark
Frank Harold Spedding
William W. Speer
George Spencer-Brown
Herbert Spencer
John Spencer
Oswald Spengler
Roger Wolcott Sperry
Baruch Spinoza
Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
Edward Anthony Spitzka
Hertha (Dorothea Elisabeth) Sponer
William Spottiswoode
Charles Sprague
Thomas Sprat
Christian Konrad Sprengel
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
John Collings Squire
Paul Arnold Srere
Nilakanta Sri Ram
Anne Louise Germaine de Sta�l
Georg Ernst Stahl
Nadine Stain
Elvin Charles Stakman
Tom Standage
Anthony Standen
Luther Standing Bear
Francis Edgar Stanley
Wendell Meredith Stanley
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Olaf Stapledon
Michael P. Starbird
Starhawk
Freya Stark
Tony Stark
Ernest Henry Starling
Hickory Starr
Pamela Vaull Starr
Linda Staten
Hermann Staudinger
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Lincoln Steffens
Wallace Stegner
John Steinbeck
George Steiner
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Garth Stein
Gertrude Stein
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)
Victor J. Stenger
Nicolaus Steno
Gunther Siegmund Stent
George Stephenson
Marjory Stephenson
Robert Stephenson
James Stephens
Patrick Steptoe
George Miller Sternberg
Shlomo Sternberg
Laurence Sterne
Alan Stern
Adlai E. Stevenson
Robert Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Abel Stevens
Anthony Stevens
John Leavitt Stevens
Nettie Maria Stevens
Wallace Stevens
Alice Stewart
Balfour Stewart
Dugald Stewart
Ian Stewart
William H. Stewart
George Robert Stibitz
Stephen M. Stigler
Brenn Stilley
Alfred Stille
Caskie Stinnett
Thomas Stirton
Joannes Stobaeus
Mervyn Stockwood
Alfred Stock
David Ross Stoddart
Sir George Gabriel Stokes
Clifford Stoll
G. Johnstone Stoney
Alex Stone
W. Clement Stone
Judith Stone
Tom Stoppard
Henry G. Stott
Rex Stout
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Eduard Adolf Strasburger
Fritz Strassmann
Joseph B. Strauss
Lewis Strauss
Robert Strausz-Hupe
Alfred Billings Street
Steven Strogatz
(Georg Friedrich) Louis Stromeyer
James Strong
Hubertus Strughold
William Strunk, Jr.
Peter Strup
Robert John Strutt (4th Baron Rayleigh)
Otto Struve
Jacques Charles-Fran�ois Sturm
Alfred Henry Sturtevant
Eduard Suess
C. Guy Suits
Harry Stack Sullivan
J. W. N. Sullivan
Frank Sulloway
Lawrence Summers
William Graham Sumner
Walter S. Sutton
David Suzuki
Shunryu Suzuki
M. S. Swaminathan
Jan Swammerdam
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
Jonathan Swift
Brian Thomas Swimme
Charles Swindoll
George Swinnock
Thomas Sydenham
James Joseph Sylvester
Patrick Symmes
Donald Symons
J. L. Synge
Publilius Syrus
Thomas Szasz
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Leo Szilard


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
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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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