Scientists Quotes · Page 8

Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by when said by world-famous scientists.

— John Lennox

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

— Jonathan Miller

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

— John Maeda

Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true.

— Elliott Sober

“Scientific facts alone are futile without a conscientious soul to work on them.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Go as far as you can, [young scientists]. The world needs you badly.

— E. O. Wilson

I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

— John Tuzo Wilson

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

— Marilyn vos Savant

I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons…

— Jim Benton

I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to…

— Don Rickles

Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something…

— Richard Dawkins

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

We have to get behind the scientists and push for a dementia breakthrough. It could be that we fear dementia out of…

— James Nesbitt

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

— Francis Collins

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

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

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You only think about things when you see people doing it. Most girls know now they can be lawyers. They know that…

— Judith Love Cohen

“The garuda stood by Isaac’s desk, while his host sat and stared up at him. "So," said Isaac, "why are you here?"…

— Anonymous

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

Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up;…

— Peter Medawar

If global cooling will come soon - scientists will lose trust.

— Shigenori Maruyama

Some of the 'aha' insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects.

— Martin Rees

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

— Robert Barany

Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

— James A. Michener

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

— Anonymous

We should show Chernobyl to the world: scientists, environmental specialists, historians and tourists.

— Volodymyr Zelensky

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

— Anonymous

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself.

— Jacob Bronowski

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

— Steven Wright

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The more scientists I talk to, the less I believe in UFOs.

— James Doohan

I don't necessarily have friends who are forensic scientists, but I have tons of friends who are cops.

— Carmine Giovinazzo

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

— Daniel Kahneman

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

— Stephen Hawking