Scientist Quotes · Page 18

“I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.”

— Thomas Jefferson

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the…

— Warren Buffett

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain…

— Charles Petzold

“Isn't that the justification used by every scientist who made something wonderful, only to discover that they've made something terrible? 'We did…

— Mira Grant

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

— Frank Herbert

I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.

— Matt Walsh

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

— Kamala Harris

Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

— Keith Floyd

I realized, Oh my gosh! Im having a stroke! Im having a stroke! The next thing my brain says to me is,…

— Anonymous

As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change…

— Richard Dawkins

I consider it as a foreshadowing of modernity in many different respects, and the consistency of character is interesting to the emerging…

— Marina Warner

I realized, "Oh my gosh! I'm having a stroke!" And the next thing my brain says to me is, Wow! This is…

— Jill Bolte Taylor

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher…

— Ellen DeGeneres

Such a system would be very, very expensive and laborious to have, given the kinds of border we have. Scientists and engineers…

— Janet Napolitano

Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth…

— E. O. Wilson

[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are…

— Karl Popper

“[On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz] The answer is unknowable, but it may not be unreasonable to see him, at least in theological terms,…

— Peter Loptson

When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility…

— Don Berliner

[When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people. Then, as…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

I was watching Animal Planet. Did you know that the male seahorse has the baby? And I was thinking, "Why don't they…

— Jim Gaffigan

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking),…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard…

— Adolf Hitler

Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Anyone who can read history with both hemispheres of the brain knows that a world comes to an end every instant--the waves…

— Hakim Bey

There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist

— Sam Allardyce

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for…

— C.P. Snow

While traditional BI is interested in the 'what and the where,' data scientists are interested in the 'how and why'.

— Amit Priyavadan Mehta

For mad scientists who keep brains in jars, here's a tip: Why not add a slice of lemon to each jar, for…

— Jack Handey

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring…

— Honore de Balzac

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

— Candace Pert

Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

— Helen Fisher

“I'm a scientist. It's not about sides or parties; I'm with whoever has the best data.”

— Anonymous

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did…

— George Washington Carver

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

— Leonardo da Vinci

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

— Richard Hamming

Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.

— Stephen Colbert

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the…

— Lukas Foss

Who's Myrnin?" Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss." "You realize no part of…

— Rachel Caine

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a…

— Tony Robbins