Elizabeth Blackwell

It is not easy to be a pioneer – but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world. Elizabeth Blackwell Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. Elizabeth Blackwell The idea of winning a doctor’s degree [...]

James W. Black

I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated. James W. Black We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any [...]

Hans Bethe

I am not a philosopher. Hans Bethe

Felix Bloch

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America. Felix Bloch But these [...]

Henry Bessemer

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone. Henry Bessemer It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming [...]

Henri Bergson

It seems that laughter needs an echo. Henri Bergson Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. Henri Bergson Our laughter is always the laughter of a group. Henri Bergson To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating [...]

John Desmond Bernal

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. John Desmond Bernal Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace [...]

Paul Berg

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Paul Berg But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than [...]

Hans Berger

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which… one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds. Hans Berger We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place [...]

George Bentham

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species. George Bentham I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my [...]

Ruth Benedict

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. Ruth Benedict Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. Ruth Benedict I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain [...]

Brian Behlendorf

Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there’s the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it’s a good thing for society. Brian Behlendorf I think the [...]

Michael Behe

Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen. Michael Behe The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids. Michael Behe In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms [...]

Marston Bates

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. Marston Bates

Derek Harold Richard Barton

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement. Derek Harold Richard Barton The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry. Derek Harold Richard Barton X-Ray crystallography is nowadays an accurate and rapid method of determining conformation in the crystal lattice, which conformation usually corresponds to the preferred conformation in solution. Derek Harold Richard Barton [...]

Mary Catherine Bateson

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. Mary Catherine Bateson No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not. Mary Catherine Bateson Of any stopping place in life, it is good [...]

Gregory Bateson

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. Gregory Bateson Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. Gregory Bateson Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly [...]

Christiaan Barnard

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. Christiaan Barnard The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped. Christiaan Barnard I don’t believe medical [...]

Edward E. Barnard

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. Edward E. Barnard Man is too quick at forming conclusions. Edward E. Barnard I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly [...]

Benjamin Banneker

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe. Benjamin Banneker Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us [...]

Robert Barany

Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment. Robert Barany It came to me then in a flash that obviously the temperature of the water was responsible for the nystagmus. Robert Barany The incorrectness and weaknesses of [...]

Julian Barbour

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains. Julian Barbour My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it. Julian Barbour There are [...]

John Bardeen

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. John Bardeen The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone. John Bardeen Further, science is a collaborative effort. John Bardeen My earlier award was also based on a close [...]

David Baltimore

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What’s its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago. David Baltimore I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant [...]

Robert D. Ballard

Don’t confuse facts with reality. Robert D. Ballard Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls. Robert D. Ballard It is a quiet and peaceful place – and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. Robert D. Ballard The Titanic will protect itself. [...]

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