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Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [the scientist] must nevertheless remain sincere and modest, if only because his studies constantly bring home to him that, compared with the gigantic aims of science, his own contribution, no matter how important, is only a drop in the ocean of truth.

You make experiments and I make theories. Do you know the difference? A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. {Remark to scientist Herman Francis Mark}

Without the basic humane connection, even the expertise of a scientist turns worthless.

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.

You want to test our apples?" Carter asked. "I want to find out what makes them taste so special so that we can share that with other people, maybe lots of them." Grace saw Carter's perplexed expression. "You ever had a fruit-flavored soft drink?" "Like an orange soda?" "Exactly. Well, somebody found the perfect orange somewhere, studied it carefully, and then made a formula based on its special flavor so that anyone anywhere in the world could taste it." "In a can of soda." "Right." "Very cool." "Do you like peach ice cream?" "Yes!" "Well, a lot of the 'all-natural peach flavoring' that you taste in that ice cream is really Gamma-Aldehyde C-14, a molecule created by Nanjing Yuance Trade Company, which I'm sure is based on a perfect peach they found somewhere." "So you're like a scientist-cook," Carter said excitedly. "Something like that." Grace smiled.

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

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.

All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman.

Alice Stewart [is] a much underestimated scientist who has been an indomitable challenger of the establishment and a thorn in the flesh of the nuclear industry.

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.

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

And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses.

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.

art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.

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.

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?

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

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.

A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf.

A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said], "And the, um, a microwave, uh," you know, then you don't sound right, but if you can just get it out without stumbling then you're going to sound fine.

Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.

At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong claims about the scientific evidence, lest contrarians "attack us". Another said that she'd rather err on the side of conservatism in her estimates, because then she feels more "secure.

Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning.

Before the 1940s the terms "system" and "systems thinking" had been used by several scientists, but it was Bertalanffy's concepts of an open system and a general systems theory that established systems thinking as a major scientific movement

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.

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

A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong.

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

Computer scientists stand on each other's feet.

Controlling for all the things that sociologists, economists, and political scientists say you should control for, we find that what drives one's views [most significantly] is race.

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.

Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

Energy is the master resource, because energy enables us to convert one material into another. As natural scientists continue to learn more about the transformation of materials from one form to another with the aid of energy, energy will be even more important.

Even brilliant scientists Google themselves.

Every day we put another 110 million tons of global warming pollution into the sky as if it's an open sewer, and it's still building up. And the scientists tell us it's a race against time. We've stabilized emissions globally now for the last three years, but they need to start coming down quickly. We've got the momentum, we've got the wind in our sails, we're gonna win this.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

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

Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.

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