Best 423 quotes in «scientist quotes» category

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didnt wear off, but I found other interests.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.

I am a scientist. I go where the facts take me.

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

I am not a scientist, but I don't need to be.

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.

I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.

If the theory accurately predicts what they [scientists] see, it confirms that it's a good theory. If they see something that the theory didn't lead them to believe, that's what Thomas Kuhn calls an anomaly. The anomaly requires a revised theory - and you just keep going through the cycle, making a better theory.

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

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

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

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

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

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

I can go into a lab and fool the rear ends off any group of scientists.

I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.

I do love science. My father is a scientist.

If something comes up that is completely freaky, it's spiritual-looking to the scientist, the first explanation is not going to be that it's God, because the history of that has failed. It would have to be, like, the hundredth explanation.

If there are lessons to be drawn from the sciences, then that should be the concern of everyone, including scientists to the extent that they can make a contribution.

If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All credible scientists agree on this point.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.

I have never seen myself as an alarmist but rather as a scientist with a critical viewpoint, and in that sense I have always been a skeptic. I have devoted most of my career to developing models for predicting the weather, and in doing so I have learned the importance of validating forecasts against observed weather. As a result, that's an approach I strongly favor for "climate predictions." It's essential to validate model results, especially when dealing with complex systems such as the climate. It's essential do so properly if such predictions are to be considered credible.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

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

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.

I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly.

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.

In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

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.

In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.