Scientist Quotes · Page 27

Scientists are trying to invent Viagra for women. It's been along for years... it's called cash.

— Alonzo Bodden

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

— Imre Lakatos

Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.

— Lewis Thomas

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist.…

— William Whewell

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No…

— Kurt Vonnegut

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

— Lise Meitner

At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the…

— Betty Shine

Scientists have discovered a black hole that is 12 billion times the size of our sun. It's full of Hillary Clinton emails.

— David Letterman

One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the…

— James Lovelock

Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer…

— Theodore von Karman

There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's…

— Brian Andreas

We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact,…

— I. A. Richards

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of…

— Robert Nozick

Outsourcing, information technology revolution, the access to India's human resources, India's pool of scientists. It will help American companies to become leaner,…

— Manmohan Singh

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he…

— Marie Curie

Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye…

— John Herschel

“The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It…

— Wilfred Trotter

Those without the gate frequently question the wisdom and right of the occultist to guard his knowledge by the imposition of oaths…

— Dion Fortune

“My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god,…

— J.B.S. Haldane

The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead…

— Nikola Tesla

There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of…

— Jane Goodall

I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the…

— Donald Barthelme

In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when…

— Paul Davies

All you do is you go back to the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London, and it feels like you're in…

— Will Oldham

Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.

— Anthony Standen

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

— Nicolas Berggruen

It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to…

— Jennifer Tour Chayes

“A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.”

— Oliver Butterworth

I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.

— Ben Stein

Louis Pasteur, the great scientist, said "chance favours the prepared mind", which is a posh way of saying 'do your homework', but…

— Al Murray

I guess economists, it’s a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field,

— Christine Lagarde

I'm reading Hans Kummer's "In Quest of the Sacred Baboon." It's wonderful. It's a scientist's journal about baboons, but it relates to…

— Stephen Greenblatt

I'd love to be a mad scientist who plays around with chemistry, and solves all the world's problems and creates a few…

— Kellan Lutz

I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

— Lucy Hawking

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and…

— Nicholas Stern

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.

— Conan O'Brien

Companies are getting bitten by hiring a data scientist who isn't really a data scientist.

— Anthony Goldbloom

The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the…

— Bernie Sanders

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that…

— Esther Hicks

Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

— Walter Guido Vincenti