Best 423 quotes in «scientist quotes» category

Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.

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

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

[My favorite scientist] Michio Kaku. He deals with wormholes. Check him out. He's great.

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

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

Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists.

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known 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.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming. They have a responsibility not to report what these scientists say.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

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

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

One day scientists will more fully understand the chemistry and neuro-circuitry that differentiates love from lust. I couldn't begin to explain the mechanics, but I know that they feel differently.

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

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports   in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.

Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.

Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

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.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

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

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

Scientists believe that the invention of clothing in Africa was a key factor in allowing our ancestors to migrate into colder climates and to spread across the globe.

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

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.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

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

Scientists tend to focus on what they don't know more than what they do know. And there are a lot of things we still don't know about the climate. But we know the difference between climate variability and climate change, and right now the amount of carbon in the atmosphere is well outside the variability pattern - and that's quite quantifiable.

Scientists are like atomic nuclei. They are more easily split than fused.

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

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Scientists have discovered a food that reduces a woman's sex drive by 99%. Wedding cake.

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.

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations.

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

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads.