Best 423 quotes in «scientist quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

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

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

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

Science is all metaphor.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.

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

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.

Scientists are a bunch of romantics.

Scientists are always skeptics.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

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

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

scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.

Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.

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

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

Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.

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.