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title: "22 Great Scientists Quotes by 19 authors"
description: "Browse 22 Great Scientists quotes by 19 authors. Discover the best Great Scientists sayings and thoughts."
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> [They're a lot of great scientists and their mission is to protect people. It's the Environmental Protection Agency, but it's really a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-fox/they-re-a-lot-of-great-scientists-and-their-mission-is-to-protect/)

[Josh Fox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-fox/)

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> [When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-greene/when-kids-look-up-to-great-scientists-the-way-they-do-to-great/)

[Brian Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-greene/)

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> [Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-wolpert/both-newton-and-darwin-were-driven-by-the-data-and-were-forced-to/)

[Lewis Wolpert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-wolpert/)

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> [“I come from a religious tradition where we make a blessing over great scientists regardless of their views on religion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-sacks/i-come-from-a-religious-tradition-where-we-make-a-blessing-over-great/)

[Jonathan Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-sacks/)

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> [Of course it would be great to have more scientists in Congress. But what I'd love is to have another Lyndon Johnson…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ro-khanna/of-course-it-would-be-great-to-have-more-scientists-in-congress-but/)

[Ro Khanna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ro-khanna/)

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> [All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-pearson/all-great-scientists-have-in-a-certain-sense-been-great-artists-the/)

[Karl Pearson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-pearson/)

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> [“Great scientists are Peter Pans, still anxious to classify and explain at an age when most people are concerned with money, power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-m-knight/great-scientists-are-peter-pans-still-anxious-to-classify-and-explain/)

[David M. Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-m-knight/)

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> [“He had made a discovery of the first magnitude. It opened up an entirely new approach to physics, which led to statistical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/basil-mahon/he-had-made-a-discovery-of-the-first-magnitude-it-opened-up-an/)

[Basil Mahon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/basil-mahon/)

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> [ \[Great scientists\] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-popper/great-scientists-are-men-of-bold-ideas-but-highly-critical-of-their/)

[Karl Popper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-popper/)

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> [The lives of those such as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein are plainly of interest in their own right, as well as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-rees/the-lives-of-those-such-as-charles-darwin-and-albert-einstein-are/)

[Martin Rees](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-rees/)

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> [How did scientists get money in the past? They were either lucky and independently wealthy, like Darwin, or they had patrons, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-jay-gould/how-did-scientists-get-money-in-the-past-they-were-either-lucky-and/)

[Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-jay-gould/)

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> [“reminded him of the great scientists who have been Christians—from Newton and Kepler to Pavlov and the discoverer of anaesthetics, Sir James…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wurmbrand/reminded-him-of-the-great-scientists-who-have-been-christians-from/)

[Richard Wurmbrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wurmbrand/)

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> [ When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did \[Claude Elwood\] Shannon in. After information… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hamming/when-you-are-famous-it-is-hard-to-work-on-small-problems-this-is-what/)

[Richard Hamming](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hamming/)

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> [Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-crane/science-will-always-raise-philosophical-questions-like-is-any/)

[Tim Crane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-crane/)

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> [When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-stein/when-we-just-saw-that-man-i-think-it-was-mr-myers-talking-about-how/)

[Ben Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-stein/)

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> [In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-davies/in-spite-of-the-fact-that-religion-looks-backward-to-revealed-truth/)

[Paul Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-davies/)

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> [The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-delbruck/the-books-of-the-great-scientists-are-gathering-dust-on-the-shelves-2/)

[Max Delbruck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-delbruck/)

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> [The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-delbruck/the-books-of-the-great-scientists-are-gathering-dust-on-the-shelves/)

[Max Delbruck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-delbruck/)

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> [“Of course the Curies died. They identified ionizing radiation while bathing in it. There were risks involved in being your own guinea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-barry/of-course-the-curies-died-they-identified-ionizing-radiation-while/)

[Max Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-barry/)

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> [“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/at-present-a-good-many-men-engaged-in-scientific-pursuits-and-who/)

[Robert G. Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-g-ingersoll/)

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> [When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-wolpert/when-it-was-suggested-to-pasteur-that-many-of-his-great-achievements/)

[Lewis Wolpert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-wolpert/)

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> [Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hamming/often-the-great-scientists-by-turning-the-problem-around-a-bit/)

[Richard Hamming](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hamming/)

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                        "text": "“Of course the Curies died. They identified ionizing radiation while bathing in it. There were risks involved in being your own guinea pig. But there was a long tradition of scientists doing just that: of paying for the expansion of human knowledge with their lives. I didn't deserve to be categorized with them, because honestly, I wasn't interested in the greater good. I just wanted to make myself better legs. I didn't mind other people benefiting in some long-term indirect way but it wasn't what motivated me. I felt guilty about this for a while. Every time a lab assistant looked at me with starstruck eyes, I felt I should confess: Look, I'm not being heroic. I'm just interested in seeing what I can do. Then it occured to me that maybe they all felt this way. All these great scientists who risked their themselves to bring light to darkness, maybe they weren't especially altruistic either. Maybe they were like me, seeing what they could do.”",
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                        "text": "“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great scientists they are regarded as generals regard sutlers who trade with both armies. Surely the time must come when the wealth of the world will not be wasted in the propagation of ignorant creeds and miraculous mistakes. The time must come when churches and cathedrals will be dedicated to the use of man; when minister and priest will deem the discoveries of the living of more importance than the errors of the dead; when the truths of Nature will outrank the 'sacred' falsehoods of the past, and when a single fact will outweigh all the miracles of Holy Writ. Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind? When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then, and not until then, will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher, become a real and blessed truth.”",
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