Scientist Quotes

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

If I weren't a Christian Scientist, and I saw "Trog" advertised on a marquee across the street, I'd think I'd contemplate suicide.

Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly....As a scientist I remain skeptical.

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened.

The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science.

...one need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a hypothesis, and observe the facts with an open mind like a scientist.

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.

I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

I am not a scientist.

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

Exploration is the sport of the scientist

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept of God and on the existence of God?

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

The key to success is having some discipline, .. You don't have to be rocket scientist.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

The poets think about war more than the social scientists.

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.