Scientists Quotes

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

— Maryanne Wolf

Scientists are not necessarily the best communicators.

— Laurie David

I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

— James D. Watson

“In an emergency, save the scientists.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

If scientists don't play God, who will?

— James D. Watson

Children are just little scientists.

— Jamie Hyneman

Science is what scientists do.

— Dennis Flanagan

Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.

— Walter E. Williams

In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.

— Fabiola Gianotti

“  “Bad news. The Egyptians have left Bogotá on one of six American Airlines’ flights. Steve, I lost them.”

— Karl Braungart

A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong.

— Tom Bethell

“Life is funny that way. Sometimes the dumbest thing you do turns out to be the smartest.”

— Robyn Mundell

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

— Penelope Fitzgerald

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

— Umberto Eco

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

— Marie Curie

“Magic is magic as long as humans can explain it logically!”

— Asse Sauga

I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success.…

— Jack W. Szostak

I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that…

— Frans Lanting

Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is…

— Robert Winston

Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that…

— Jack Horner

How do I feel when I am invited to a congregation of scientists? I feel quite at home. When they break into…

— Wole Soyinka

The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Jane Goodall

As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling…

— S. Jay Olshansky

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once…

— Richard Leakey

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

The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted. It mutates furiously, it has decoys to evade the…

— Seth Berkley

... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Scientists tend to come in two stripes: those who have tremendous appetite and aptitude for the details, and those who illuminate the…

— Carolyn Porco

Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of…

— Rebecca Skloot

Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once…

— Seth Shostak

“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Scientists want to search for alien signals because that's what gets them publicity. They are like Jesus Christ." "Jesus Christ?" Nambodri asked,…

— Manu Joseph

“Wanasayansi wanaamini kuwa Yesu atarudi tarehe 29 Julai 2016. Tarehe hiyo kitu kikubwa sana kitatokea katika dunia yetu kitakachosababisha tetemeko kubwa la…

— Enock Maregesi

“There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use it to prove the nonexistence…

— C. JoyBell C

We are not just scientists, but human beings as well. Like most people we’d like to see the world a better place,…

— Stephen Schneider

“It is very easy to grow tired at collecting; the period of a low tide is about all men can endure. At…

— John Steinbeck

There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world…

— Edward Condon

“Many scientists have tried to make determinism and complementarity the basis of conclusions that seem to me weak and dangerous; for instance,…

— Louis de Broglie