I'm not a scientist, man.

A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.

— Anonymous

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in…

— R. D. Laing

The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea that he…

— Claude Bernard

It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that…

— Peter Medawar

If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a…

— Finley Peter Dunne

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

— Richard Dawkins

As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely we could…

— Daniel Everett

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As…

— Larry Page

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

— I. A. Richards

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman

... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it…

— Carl Sagan