Scientist Quotes · Page 8

Go as far as you can, [young scientists]. The world needs you badly.

— E. O. Wilson

Science is simply common sense at its best.

— Thomas Huxley

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

— Donald Johanson

Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.

— Franz Boas

Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

— Scott Nicholson

We're right next to Mile High Stadium. I'm no rocket scientist, but...uh...(smile).

— Brian Skrudland

As a true scientist, I have been proved wrong so many times that I'm very humble.

— Kip Thorne

To be a true scientist, is to begin reading the book from the end.

— Savannah Yates

Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

— Ernst Mach

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

— Loren Eiseley

Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a…

— Allen Steele

We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.

— Vikram Sarabhai

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.”

— Caleb Carr

As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very…

— Richard Louv

Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.

— Frank Oppenheimer

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

Sometimes people feel mind is merely the - in some animal, the energy or something from the brain. Now there are little…

— Dalai Lama

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because…

— Michael Flanders

Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Cant you understand that romanticism is no more an enemy of science than mysticism is? In fact, romanticism and science are good…

— Tom Robbins

I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the…

— Ann Druyan

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

— Bill Bryson

Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made…

— Joe Meno

I always say that, like a scientist or anyone, you always want to be the problem-solver. You feel like, if you solve…

— Viola Davis

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

— Claude Bernard

Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of…

— C. D. Broad

I think my dad [ Stephen Hawking] would have been pleased if I had turned out a scientist because he truly believes…

— Stephen Hawking

I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged,…

— Veronica Roth

Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by when said by world-famous scientists.

— John Lennox

“Every scientist is a descendant of Humboldt . We are all his family.”

— Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.

— Martin Fleischmann

“As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.”

— Abhijit Naskar

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

— Bill Condon

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

— Richard P. Feynman

There's no term to the work of a scientist.

— Walter Reisch