Best 423 quotes in «scientist quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

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.

Computer scientists stand on each other's feet.

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.

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

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

Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

Even brilliant scientists Google themselves.

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

Even if a majority of scientists agree on something, they know that if they don't agree on it they're not going to get their funding anymore, they won't have jobs. If it could be proven that there is no man made global warming, Heidi Cullen might be out of a job.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

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 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 scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon.

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.

Exploration is the sport of the scientist

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

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

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Go as far as you can, [young scientists]. The world needs you badly.

For the first time ever, women are scoring higher than men on IQ tests. Scientists say it has something to do with breast implants -- not that it makes the women smarter, it just makes the men dumber.

God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.

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

Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.