Scientist Quotes · Page 7

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

— David Sarnoff

“I have learned to have more trust in the scientist than he does in himself.”

— David Sarnoff

To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.

— Francois Arago

When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.

— Bill Nye

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

— Anton Chekhov

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

— Robert Jarvik

I was a topper till class tenth and wanted to initially be a scientist.

— Sonu Nigam

Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be

— Isaac Asimov

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of…

— Yehuda Amichai

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what…

— Donald Knuth

Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

— Haldan Keffer Hartline

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

— Ambrose Bierce

“{ In a letter to his friend Rudolf Wagner } I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not.”

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound... { His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare }”

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

— Peter Medawar

The business of raising animals for food (with its continuous heavy waste stream of methane and nitrous oxide - leading global warming…

— Kathy Freston

Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so…

— Charles Fort

Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and…

— Susan Blackmore

Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that…

— Atul Gawande

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If…

— Hans Eysenck

Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out…

— Richard Dawkins

I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the…

— Ronald Reagan

What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that…

— David Ruelle

People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws…

— Paul Davies

There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the…

— Winston Churchill

Mr. Hillaire Belloc has pointed out that science has changed greatly, and for the worse, since it became popular. Some hundred years…

— Anthony Standen

To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that…

— C. Wright Mills

We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search…

— Stanford Moore

[The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on…

— Bill Bryson

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.

— Carl Sagan

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

You know, I'm an egg-heady scientist with a large beard and like Birkenstocks.

— Robert Sapolsky

Recognition by one's peers is the goal of every scientist.

— Moshe Vardi

I sleep better at night knowing that scientists can clone sheep.

— Jeff Ayres

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

— Max Planck

A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was.

— Theodore von Karman

I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

— John Tuzo Wilson