“I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.” — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips. — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits. — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is. — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success. — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking. — Keith Floyd Copy Share Image
There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist — Sam Allardyce Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If scientists and scholars were to become "collectively self-organised and consciously activist" today, they would probably devote themselves to service to state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even if a majority of scientists agree on something, they know that if they don't agree on it they're not going to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The reward of the young scientist is the emotional th rill of being the first person in the history of the world… — Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Copy Share Image
Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, the jury in the Reginald Denny Beating trial, after much thinking, concludes, that Person A is not necessarily trying… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Rifkin's assertions bear no relationship to what I have observed and practiced for 25 years ... Either I am blind or he… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Ever since Sir Isaac Newton's times, scientists have worked in the same sort of way: They show a great respect for experiment… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace.… — Howard Wolpe Copy Share Image
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation . . . I am an infidel… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
