Scientist Quotes

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

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

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

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

What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

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

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.

What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

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.

Being a scientist is like being an explorer. You have this immense curiosity, this stubbornness, this resolute will that you will go forward no matter what other people say.

We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust him when he seems to be influencing us by his manner.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.

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

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

A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

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.

Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

Science is not always what scientists do.

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

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

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.

Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying.

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?

No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.

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.

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.

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

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

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

Most scientists never look at UFO evidence, which leads to their conclusion that there is no evidence.

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.