Scientist Quotations | Page 5

In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.

We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we have another 100,000 years?" In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.

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.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

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

Tilth is something every farmer can recognize but no scientist can measure.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

I'm definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves - they're reality-addicts, they've got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.

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

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.

God is a scientist, not a magician.

No scientist thinks in formulae.

Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

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.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

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

A scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.

Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.

Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be

Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

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

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.

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

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

[Question: Do you feel that scientists correct themselves as often as they should?] More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

I am not a scientist.

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.