Best 423 quotes in «scientist quotes» category

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

I do love science. My father is a scientist.

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

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 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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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 Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

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.

In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that's not quite me. What's me is to do it in novels.

I read the things that scientists have figured out, and apply what they say is beneficial, but at the end of the day I'm the wrong person to get unchallenged nutritional advice from.

Iranian nuclear policy is transparent, and we have opened our facilities to United Nations inspectors. However, we will not abandon the great achievements of Iranian scientists. I too will not suspend uranium enrichment. However, I will attempt to avoid unnecessary tensions. We have a right to enrich uranium.

I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a disciplinary and sub-disciplinary specialty, so I am a psychologist and I am a social psychologist within that. But I think the exciting thing is to think about the social sciences in general and the nature of society. It's one of the hardest things to think about, because our brains aren't designed to think about these emergent entities. We're not good at it.

I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.

It doesn’t matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have. We all need to have those as we make our way through the day. And they're not that hard to acquire.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on".