Scientist Quotations | Page 4

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.

We've got to set up in our own community our scientists and scholars that can check what is going into our people.

The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.

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

Scientist believe in things, not in person

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

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.

I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I'm not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I'm not a scientist.

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

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.

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.

A scientist is just a kid who never grew up.

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.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

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

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

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

When I look back on it, I think, "Why didn't you stop the cruelty earlier?" To stand back was contrary to my upbringing and nature. When I stood back as a noninterfering experimental scientist, I was, in a sense, as drawn into the power of the situation as any prisoners and guards.

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

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?

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

The true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth, or the motion of heavenly bodies, or the sequence of the seasons, or man's need of food and water, or the function of the heart.

Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).

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.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself.

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

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.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

[My favorite scientist] Michio Kaku. He deals with wormholes. Check him out. He's great.

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

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

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.

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

Isn't it amazing what scientists can accomplish when no one makes them stop?

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

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.

Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.

There will be well-testable theories, hardly testable theories, and non-testable theories. Those which are non-testable are of no interest to empirical scientists. They may be described as metaphysical.

Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.

Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.

Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.

Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith the existence of a law-like order in nature that is at least in part comprehensible to us.

The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs—for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?

For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very preceisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping.

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

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

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.

Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.

Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.

I just wanted to be a scientist

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

Scientists don't believe anything.Scientists test things.

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by the accommodations they have made to religious irrationality.

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming. They have a responsibility not to report what these scientists say.

Be a scientist, save the world.

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

Computer scientists stand on each other's feet.

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.

To build public support for what they're doing, scientists are always going to say there is the prospect to cure all these horrible diseases, but they're cautious for the most part in saying when those cures will arrive.

There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, "Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the facts. We're not making this up."

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.

All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman.

The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.

The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have achieved. On the contrary, they head in this direction.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

NASA scientists have discovered a new form of life, unfortunately, it won't date them either.

When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no un.

No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others.

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

Science is all metaphor.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some point stopped and "history" took over is absurd, though it is widespread among various social scientists and humanists.

Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

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.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist

Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations.

The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.