Scientist Quotes

When parents watch scientist after scientist describe the dangers of GM foods, I wouldn't want to be a stubborn food service director trying to stand in their way.

The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.

In South Korea, a scientist considered to be one of the pioneers in the field of cloning has been sentenced to two years in prison. At least, they think it's him.

I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.

We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.

Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can.

You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.

Be a scientist, save the world.

A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.

If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want to change 'cause I like the logical way I think.

When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no one.

The scientist states that pressure is exerted outwards in all directions equally, whereas natural pressure (e.g. air pressure) is exerted inwards from all directions equally.

A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.

Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.

In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end.

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.

I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.

I'd love to be a mad scientist who plays around with chemistry, and solves all the world's problems and creates a few of them himself.

Let's put research into the hands of legitimate scientists, not pot profiteers.

I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become a successful writer?

As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.

Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.

Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.

Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.

Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.