Scientist Quotes

Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

Most scientists never look at UFO evidence, which leads to their conclusion that there is no evidence.

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.

A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart of a missionary The spirit of a crusader.

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.

Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

There are worse sins for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivial

Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.

God is a scientist, not a magician.

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.

Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

If scientists don't play God, who will?

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

Of course I am not religious — I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.

Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation.

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.

Louis Pasteur, the great scientist, said "chance favours the prepared mind", which is a posh way of saying 'do your homework', but it's an excellent piece of advice.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.

A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

When a scientist says he believes the Bible--that doesnt give me anymore more faith in the Bible that gives me more faith in the scientist.

I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist.

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.