Scientist Quotes

Few scientists would treat their cars as badly as they treat their conceptual schemes.

Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.

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.

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

Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted.

I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit.

A data scientist is that unique blend of skills that can both unlock the insights of data and tell a fantastic story via the data.

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?

By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ of imagination.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

Science is but an image of the truth.

If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Scientists are a bunch of romantics.

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

When a scientist says something, his colleagues must ask themselves only whether it is true. When a politician says something, his colleagues must first of all ask, 'Why does he say it?

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

Scientist alone is true poet.

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension.

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).

As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.

Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have.

I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?

I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.