Scientist Quotes · Page 24

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own…

— Giacomo Leopardi

Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.

— Alfred North Whitehead

It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient

— Barack Obama

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game

— Murray Gell-Mann

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

— Shana Alexander

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

— Max Planck

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to…

— Arthur Leonard Schawlow

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in…

— Henri Poincare

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation,…

— Deepak Chopra

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some…

— John Pople

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes…

— Joshua Foer

Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who…

— Konrad Lorenz

If it makes you feel any better, you’re not as bad as Keith. He was here earlier today and was so nervous,…

— Richelle Mead

We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!" Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts."…

— Kenneth Oppel

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries…

— Jeremy Rifkin

Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this complexity possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it…

— George F. R. Ellis

We kind of know that food is necessary to survive. But our ways of connecting with food have been, in many ways,…

— Raj Patel

Is there some magic wand they can wave on it and presto! - physics is overturned and carbon dioxide doesn't trap heat…

— Al Gore

But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of…

— Albert Einstein

I mean a global warming advocate is as wrong as anybody could be about anything, folks. It's a hoax. There is no…

— Rush Limbaugh

Do I think that people should in the best of all possible worlds have to go to jail for wanting the US…

— Bill McKibben

I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an…

— Vandana Shiva

But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their…

— Anthony Standen

It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be…

— Katharine Hayhoe

There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of…

— Brian Greene

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some…

— Anonymous

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

— Max Planck

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first…

— Aristotle

“Of course I am not religious—I don’t in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so”

— Philip Warren Anderson

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.

— Alan Lightman

My father is a scientist , my mother a teacher, my brother is a Naval Officer and I am an entertainer -…

— Abhinav Shukla

What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light…

— Jean Rostand

The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking…

— Robert M. Pirsig

I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right…

— Annette Curtis Klause

To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.

— E. O. Wilson

I knew I wasn't going to be a rocket scientist - let's not be fools - but I wasn't going to be…

— Mr. T

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

— Michio Kaku

Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well.

— Joao Magueijo

The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.

— Anonymous

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist…

— Arthur Ganson