Scientist Quotes

We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it involves outer space.

In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.

Science is what scientists do.

Scientists are always skeptics.

I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.

[I want] a one-armed scientist ... [Who would not qualify his advice with 'on the other hand...']

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun!

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start to believe it.

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?

It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.

Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some times make claims that are misunderstood by the public.

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.

Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.

Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff.

It’s ironic that as scientists that don’t believe in god, were the ones that are closest to god.

The word relationship best refers to the connection between parasite and host, or shark and remora. It's a biological term. I'd rather be a jerk than a scientist when it comes to love.

I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

There is no debate among any statured scientists of what is happening. The only debate is the rate at which it is happening.

I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough.

A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about.

There's not a rocket scientist, not a doctor, not an accountant that 30 years in goes, "Oh, now I'm getting it. Now I can't wait to get back out there because I'm better than ever."

What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.

My attitude is, I am not a lawyer; I am not a doctor; I am not a scientist. I am a filmmaker and I want to present what each side is saying and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

Isn't it amazing what scientists can accomplish when no one makes them stop?

The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'