Scientist quotes
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We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
-- Adam Savage -
Kids are natural scientists.
-- Alan Alda -
Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
-- Alan Lightman -
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.
-- Alastair Reynolds -
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The greatest scientists are artists as well.
-- Albert Einstein -
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.
-- Albert Einstein -
A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf,
-- Albert Sabin -
Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.
-- Alison Gopnik -
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Scientist alone is true poet.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
-- Amelia Barr -
While traditional BI is interested in the 'what and the where,' data scientists are interested in the 'how and why'.
-- Amit Priyavadan Mehta -
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.
-- Anais Nin -
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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
-- Anne McCaffrey -
Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.
-- Anne Roe -
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.
-- Antonin Artaud -
My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.
-- Antony Garrett Lisi -
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The worst scientist is he who is not an artist; the worst artist is he who is no scientist.
-- Armand Trousseau -
Exploration is the sport of the scientist
-- Auguste Piccard -
The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.
-- Ayn Rand -
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
-- Barry Commoner -
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I was going to be a scientist.
-- Ben Okri -
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
-- Ben Stein -
Most scientists never look at UFO evidence, which leads to their conclusion that there is no evidence...
-- Bernard Haisch -
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
-- Bill Condon -
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There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.
-- Bill Maher -
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
-- Bjork -
Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.
-- Bob Dylan -
I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
-- Bobby Fischer -
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The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at the moment.
-- Bonnie Bassler -
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
-- Brian Greene -
I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.
-- C.P. Snow -
Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
-- C.P. Snow -
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By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss -
Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets,
-- Carolyn Porco -
Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.
-- Carroll Quigley -
Scientists are like atomic nuclei. They are more easily split than fused....
-- Charles Osgood -
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I’m not a scientist either, but I can use my brain, and I can talk to one,
-- Charlie Crist -
First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.
-- Chris Shays -
Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept of God and on the existence of God?
-- Christian B. Anfinsen -
I guess economists, it’s a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field,
-- Christine Lagarde -
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You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
-- Christopher Hampton -
Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon.
-- Christopher Reeve -
I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.
-- Daniel J. Bernstein -
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.
-- David Eagleman -
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I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.
-- David Sarnoff -
Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.
-- Dean Ornish -
Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.
-- Dennis Flanagan -
Science is what scientists do.
-- Dennis Flanagan -
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Scientists are always skeptics.
-- Donald A. Norman -
Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
-- Donald Johanson -
art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.
-- Dore Ashton -
The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper
-- E. O. Wilson -
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The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
-- Edward Norton -
There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun!
-- Edwin Land -
Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.
-- Edwin Newman -
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A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified.
-- Edwin Powell Hubble -
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.
-- Emun Elliott -
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.
-- Eric Hobsbawm -
Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).
-- Eric Lander -
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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.
-- Erwin Chargaff -
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.
-- Evan Esar -
As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.
-- Francis Collins -
A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
-- Francis Crick -
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To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.
-- Francois Arago -
The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates under an inner compulsion to get the most out of life with the least expenditure of labor.
-- Frank Chodorov -
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
-- Franz Boas -
A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.
-- Fred Brooks -
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Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.
-- Fred Brooks -
Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.
-- Friedrich L. Bauer -
A scientist should be the happiest of men.
-- George Wald -
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.
-- George Wald -
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The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.
-- Giacomo Leopardi -
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
-- Haldan Keffer Hartline -
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
-- Hans Eysenck -
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The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.
-- Hans Selye -
Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.
-- Harry Houdini -
Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.
-- Helen Fisher -
It’s ironic that as scientists that don’t believe in god, were the ones that are closest to god.
-- Hiromu Arakawa -
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I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
-- Ina Garten -
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
-- Irving Langmuir -
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
-- Irving Langmuir -
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
-- Isaac Asimov -
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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
-- Isaac Asimov -
Science is not always what scientists do.
-- J. Allen Hynek -
Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.
-- J. David Lewis-Williams -
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself.
-- Jacob Bronowski -
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There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.
-- Jacob Bronowski -
Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?
-- Jacques Derrida -
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
-- Jacques Yves Cousteau -
I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.
-- Jamaica Kincaid -
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If scientists don't play God, who will?
-- James D. Watson -
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
-- James D. Watson -
I wish there would be more movies about scientists.
-- James D. Watson -
I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.
-- James Hansen -
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I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
-- James Lovelock -
There is no debate among any statured scientists of what is happening. The only debate is the rate at which it is happening.
-- James McCarthy -
Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.
-- Jan de Bont -
A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about.
-- Janusz Korwin-Mikke -
