Scientists Quotes
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As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either. (Quote by - Robert Barany)
I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions. (Quote by - Thomas R. Cech)
I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments. (Quote by - Edmond H. Fischer)
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well. (Quote by - Unknown)
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. (Quote by - Unknown)
Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. (Quote by - Donella Meadows)
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
If global cooling will come soon - scientists will lose trust. (Quote by - Shigenori Maruyama)
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. (Quote by - David Ben-Gurion)
A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest. (Quote by - Jonathan Miller)
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it. (Quote by - Susan Faludi)
I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way. (Quote by - Antony Hewish)
The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research. (Quote by - Rosa DeLauro)
The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts. (Quote by - Robert Barany)
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. (Quote by - Michael Crichton)
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. (Quote by - George Stigler)
We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research. (Quote by - Kenichi Fukui)
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality. (Quote by - John Charles Polanyi)
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. (Quote by - Robert Graves)
People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists. (Quote by - Jonathan Miller)
Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too. (Quote by - Kirstie Alley)
Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported. (Quote by - Paul Berg)
Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists. (Quote by - James Newman)
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. (Quote by - Claude Levi-Strauss)
However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate. (Quote by - James Randi)
Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before. (Quote by - Owen Chamberlain)
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past. (Quote by - Edward M. Purcell)
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientist. (Quote by - E. B. White)
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. (Quote by - Konrad Lorenz)
Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems. (Quote by - Tim Berners-Lee)
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. (Quote by - John Charles Polanyi)
An artist deals with aspects of reality different from those which a scientist sees. (Quote by - Richard Wright)
We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches. (Quote by - Franz Boas)
Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet. (Quote by - Carl Lewis)
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. (Quote by - Jacob Bronowski)
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. (Quote by - John Charles Polanyi)
Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing. (Quote by - Jan de Bont)
What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether. (Quote by - Jeremy Rifkin)
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. (Quote by - Ralph Ellison)
Man can't help hoping even if he is a scientist. He can only hope more accurately. (Quote by - Karl A. Menninger)
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. (Quote by - Nikola Tesla)
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. (Quote by - Konrad Lorenz)
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. (Quote by - Brian Aldiss)
The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental. (Quote by - Kenichi Fukui)
In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process. (Quote by - Tammy Baldwin)
Look at these cows and remember that the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk. (Quote by - Michael Pupin)
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. (Quote by - Stella Adler)
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists. (Quote by - Paul Wellstone)
If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be. (Quote by - Evelyn Waugh)
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them. (Quote by - James A. Michener)
As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence. (Quote by - Zahi Hawass)
Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes. (Quote by - Jonathan Katz)
Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals. (Quote by - Ruben Hinojosa)
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing. (Quote by - Galen Rowell)
Dedicated researchers seek better treatments and cures for diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's and every form of cancer. But these scientists face an array of disincentives. We can do better. (Quote by - Michael Milken)
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not. (Quote by - Peter Medawar)
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists. (Quote by - Barry Commoner)
The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on. (Quote by - Emil Zatopek)
Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it. (Quote by - Haldan Keffer Hartline)
Medical scientists are nice people, but you should not let them treat you. (Quote by - August Bier)
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. (Quote by - Imre Lakatos)
Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell. (Quote by - Eliot Engel)
If those scientists are so smart, why do they all count backward? (Quote by - Robert Orben)
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance -- the idea that anything is possible. (Quote by - Ray Bradbury)
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. (Quote by - John Charles Polanyi)
Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily available to scientists must increase. (Quote by - Ron Kind)
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. (Quote by - Barry Commoner)
In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field. (Quote by - Donald Knuth)
No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study. (Quote by - Phillip E. Johnson)
I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake? (Quote by - James Merrill)
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions. (Quote by - Joseph Crowley)
In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series. (Quote by - Craig Kilborn)
So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments. (Quote by - Uri Geller)
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. (Quote by - David Cronenberg)
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. (Quote by - Martin Fleischmann)
We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers. (Quote by - Thomas R. Cech)
The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them. (Quote by - Daniel Goleman)
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. (Quote by - Frank Zappa)
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out. (Quote by - Peter Garrett)
Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look. (Quote by - Walter Kaufmann)
I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions. (Quote by - Richard Ernst)
Science is what scientists do. (Quote by - Dennis Flanagan)
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. (Quote by - John Sladek)
He was a crystal of morality among our scientists. (Quote by - Nikita Khrushchev)
Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong. (Quote by - Donald Johanson)
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution. (Quote by - Theodosius Dobzhansky)
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War. (Quote by - Joseph Rotblat)
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. (Quote by - John Forbes Nash, Jr.)
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. (Quote by - Steve Irwin)
Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed. (Quote by - Johannes Stark)
There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities. (Quote by - Eric Hobsbawm)
The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it. (Quote by - Wellington Mara)
Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts. (Quote by - Kenneth G. Wilson)
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. (Quote by - Arthur C. Clarke)
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. (Quote by - Amelia Barr)
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. (Quote by - Marie Curie)
The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old. (Quote by - Sidney Altman)
I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists. (Quote by - Marquis de Condorcet)
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. (Quote by - Nikola Tesla)
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right. (Quote by - Nathan Deal)
What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying. (Quote by - Nikita Khrushchev)
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. (Quote by - Jacques Cousteau)
Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view. (Quote by - Walter Gilbert)
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society. (Quote by - John Charles Polanyi)
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. (Quote by - David Chalmers)
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. (Quote by - Linus Pauling)
Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. (Quote by - Donald Cram)
The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips. (Quote by - Penelope Fitzgerald)
I haven't the slightest idea where fashions in pathology are born. . . . Possibly some of my older readers dimly recollect the days when modish scientists declared that the only dependable method of relieving a toothache was a clean, conclusive appendect (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. (Quote by - Arthur C. Clarke)
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. (Quote by - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists. (Quote by - Robert B. Laughlin)
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists. (Quote by - Roland Joffe)
Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly. (Quote by - Conan O'Brien)
The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research. (Quote by - Louise Slaughter)
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision. (Quote by - Barry Commoner)
Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers. (Quote by - John Charles Polanyi)
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists. (Quote by - Ruth Benedict)
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists. (Quote by - Erwin Schrodinger)
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. (Quote by - Loren Eiseley)
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. (Quote by - Bill Vaughan)
Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course. (Quote by - Marilyn vos Savant)
Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right. (Quote by - Jonathan Miller)
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
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. (Quote by - Lennart Nilsson)
Scientists are human, they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. (Quote by - Cyril Ponnamperuma)
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming. (Quote by - Uberto Crescenti)
The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things. (Quote by - Bruce Jackson)
Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. (Quote by - James Lovelock)
Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days. (Quote by - Miguel de Icaza)
Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe. (Quote by - Tony Snow)
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits. (Quote by - Joanna Lumley)
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. (Quote by - Ursula K. LeGuin)
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. (Quote by - Mortimer Adler)
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. (Quote by - Sheri S. Tepper)
Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
Scientists are always skeptics. (Quote by - Donald Norman)
