Thursday 23 April 2009

EXP2:Quotes

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied." --Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel:
A Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him.(Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel)





"From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. " --Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau:
A French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. He was commonly known as "le Commandant Cousteau" or "Captain Cousteau".(Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cousteau)


“That's a difficult one. Scientists are asked to referee a lot of papers and to a certain extent we have to believe each other as to the validity of the data.”
--Keith Campbell
Keith Campbell:
An English biologist who was a member of the team that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells.(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Campbell_(biologist))

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