The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
They have poisoned the Thames and killed the fish in the river. A little further development of the same wisdom and science… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
Being a scientist is like being an explorer. You have this immense curiosity, this stubbornness, this resolute will that you will go… — Sara Seager Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
But more than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report-the key chapter setting out the scientific evidence for and against a… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. The process of being a writer is much… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“You’re a scientist. And there is no greater expression of sheer stupid human hope than the study of science. We’re born groping… — Jessica Best Copy Share Image
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
Like anyone else, I too have the potential for violence; I too have anger in me. However, I try to recall that… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I'm comparing Americans to international peers in terms of GDP, educational system - the sort of benchmarks we used to designate a… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Scientists say the European space probe that landed on the comet has detected organic matter. This means there could be either life… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith!… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I'm definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I just wish I could walk into my Senator’s office and say, “Senator Dude, Um, we have a problem with these sicko… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
“Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he… — Shelby D. Hunt Copy Share Image
If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Creation did not take millions of years. We can hardly be justified in trying to harmonize the days of creation with the… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
As a scientist, of course, we have to believe there is no supernatural. There are only natural entities in the universe. And… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“Think of facts and figures as bricks and cement, and science or scientific understanding as a building. Without the vision of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I saw the logic that they used, and the death of a thousand cuts as experimental scientists slowly chipped away at the… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
![“When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try…” quote by Richard Hamming](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8ae/richard-hamming-14135_acorns_when-you-are-famous-it-is-hard-to-work-o_2457509.jpg)
