Scientist Quotes

When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.

While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.

Who's Myrnin?" Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss." "You realize no part of that sentence made sense, right?

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

There are things I believe in to a certain extent, as much as a scientist would. And I like, through the means of entertainment, to explore those ideas.

The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

Computer scientists stand on each other's feet.

Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.

Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.

The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming. They have a responsibility not to report what these scientists say.

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations.

As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.

Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

What do I do? (Jeff) Well, not to insult a man who looks like a rocket scientist in comparison to you, but…run, Forrest, run. (Rafael)

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

Scientists don't believe anything.Scientists test things.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

NASA scientists have discovered a new form of life, unfortunately, it won't date them either.

I'm reading Hans Kummer's "In Quest of the Sacred Baboon." It's wonderful. It's a scientist's journal about baboons, but it relates to the search for human origin.

More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

[Question: Do you feel that scientists correct themselves as often as they should?] More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android phone.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

I've got a new studio set up very much based around live mixing and also mixing analogue and digital systems. Inspired by the late King Tubby and Scientist.

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.

I just wanted to be a scientist

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.

Everybody doesn't want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.

A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong.

The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

While researching the project [The Fourth Phase] I stumbled across this amazing research by a scientist called Dr Gerard Pollack who had done studies on what he called a 'fourth phase' of water.

Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have achieved. On the contrary, they head in this direction.

If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All credible scientists agree on this point.