Scientific Instrument Makers

Famous quotes containing the words scientific, instrument and/or makers:

    “Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future—with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals—have a worse record to show in these “sciences” than in almost any scientific endeavor.”
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    “Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)