Scientist Quotes · Page 17

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

— Jane Goodall

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain…

— Charles Petzold

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

— Warren Buffett

“Isn't that the justification used by every scientist who made something wonderful, only to discover that they've made something terrible? 'We did…

— Mira Grant

“I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.”

— Thomas Jefferson

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

— Kamala Harris

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

— Keith Floyd

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

— Matt Walsh

Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and…

— Brian Schmidt

They're a lot of great scientists and their mission is to protect people. It's the Environmental Protection Agency, but it's really a…

— Josh Fox

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to…

— Evelyn Glennie

[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well,…

— Ronald Reagan

I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years…

— Steve Gleason

This doesn't mean that they commit themselves to the view that this is all there is. Many scientists (including me) think that…

— Steven Weinberg

I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me…

— Allan Sandage

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but…

— Adam Savage

Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and…

— Anonymous

As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice--there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how…

— Thomas Kuhn

“He’s a scientist. Above all things, scientists are protectors of our world. “Scientist is another word for hero,” Mayor Cardinal was fond…

— Joseph Fink

Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

How did scientists get money in the past? They were either lucky and independently wealthy, like Darwin, or they had patrons, like…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the…

— Ted Nordhaus

Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task…

— Anonymous

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

— Sam Allardyce

I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for…

— C.P. Snow

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

— Frank Herbert

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and…

— Laurence J. Peter

Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

— Umberto Eco

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English…

— James Delingpole

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

— George Carlin

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our environment, there will be no fracking.

— Nicola Sturgeon

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

— Willard Van Orman Quine

American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

— Ludwig von Mises

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

— Anthony Standen

Scientists should be doing a better job of guarding their own reputations and of the general scientific community.

— Michael F. Jacobson

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience…

— Robert Jarvik