Scientist Quotes · Page 17

The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.

— Richard Dawkins

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

— David Chalmers

“Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he…

— Konrad Lorenz

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our environment, there will be no fracking.

— Nicola Sturgeon

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who…

— Soren Kierkegaard

American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

— Ludwig von Mises

David Dhawan is the scientist of entertainment and has given me the opportunity over the last 20 years to work in several films.

— Rajpal Yadav

“If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out how the world works; that it is good…

— Sylvain Neuvel

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer,…

— Frank P. Ramsey

We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution…

— Robert Neelly Bellah

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how…

— Tim O'Reilly

Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that…

— John Stossel

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that…

— Eddie Vedder

When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees…

— Elisha Gray

Scientists are complaining that the new dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the…

— Jay Leno

As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion,…

— Fritjof Capra

I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began.…

— Jane Goodall

Scientists blame the audience for being too stupid, shallow, or lazy to understand. There has been a fascinating debate in the blogosphere…

— Mark Powell

My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god,…

— John B. S. Haldane

Political scientists don't work at banks which is a problem. As political issues become more important for the markets, analysts at banks…

— Ian Bremmer

There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of…

— Jimmy Sangster

[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that…

— Calvin Coolidge

“Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog,…

— Steve Aylett

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time,…

— Ernst Haas

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

— Elvin C. Stakman

I knew, always, what I wanted to be. Even before I had my first computer, I wanted to be a computer scientist.

— Gary William Flake

Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were…

— Anthony Standen

Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.

— Cornelia Parker

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

— George Sarton

[I want] a one-armed scientist ... [Who would not qualify his advice with 'on the other hand...']

— Edmund Muskie

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand…

— David Eagleman

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

— Joanna Lumley

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

— Francis Collins

In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with…

— Arthur William Galston

By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.

— Mayim Bialik

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

— Jane Goodall

Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and…

— Nathan Myhrvold