Scientist Quotes

Any kind of person can be a scientist.

— Maria Klawe

“Batman's a scientist.”

— Homer Simpson

Exploration is the sport of the scientist

— Auguste Piccard

If scientists don't play God, who will?

— James D. Watson

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

— Harrison Ford

I'm not a scientist, man.

— Marco Rubio

Science is what scientists do.

— Dennis Flanagan

I'm not just a scientist.

— Hasso Plattner

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

— Jane Goodall

The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.

— Quentin Reynolds

A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong.

— Tom Bethell

Data is immensely appealing to me as a social scientist.

— Zeynep Tufekci

“I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.”

— Amit Kalantri

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

— John Lennox

“Dr John Nash Ott is the greatest USA scientist you have probably never heard of.”

— Steven Magee

Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and…

— Nathan Myhrvold

By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with…

— Arthur William Galston

Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.

— Mayim Bialik

You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes.

— Jane Goodall

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

— George Sarton

[I want] a one-armed scientist ... [Who would not qualify his advice with 'on the other hand...']

— Edmund Muskie

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand…

— David Eagleman

Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change…

— Lisa Randall

It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by…

— Steven Weinberg

How do I feel when I am invited to a congregation of scientists? I feel quite at home. When they break into…

— Wole Soyinka

If something comes up that is completely freaky, it's spiritual-looking to the scientist, the first explanation is not going to be that…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos)…

— Seth Shostak

The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers…

— Seth Godin

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In…

— Jean Rostand

I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes…

— Richard Dawkins

Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by…

— Wendell Berry

Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this…

— Robert J. Shiller

The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his…

— Paul Feyerabend

“I am very much aware of the fact that there would come people who would attempt to proclaim me being a reincarnation…

— Abhijit Naskar

The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by…

— Al Gore

Half of one per cent of the U.S. budget is space-related stuff. In Canada, we spend more on dog foodScreen Shot 2015-08-19…

— David Saint-Jacques

I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists,…

— Jose Saramago