Scientist Quotes · Page 20

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

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

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

— Sam Allardyce

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

— Frank Herbert

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

— Edmund Muskie

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

— George Sarton

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

— Francis Collins

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

— Joanna Lumley

The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in…

— Daniel Kahneman

I wish scientists would come up with an ear of corn that was big and round, because then when you were eating…

— Jack Handey

I built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I'm doing and if I look at…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors,…

— Michael Pollan

Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be…

— Lewis Wolpert

I'm a skeptic. ...Global Warming it's become a new religion. You're not supposed to be against Global Warming. You have basically no…

— Ivar Giaever

It is a privilege to play the brilliant scientist, Phil Jones, whose own private world was so threatened from outside and whose…

— Jason Watkins

It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is…

— Gary Zukav

On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time…

— Edward Condon

Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“Must be frustrating being a scientist. There you are, incrementally discovering how the universe works via a series of complex tests and…

— Charlie Brooker

I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started…

— Hanya Yanagihara

The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist…

— Robert Watson-Watt

The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I want to make meditation an absolute for all students, whatever the subject they may be studying, so their awareness becomes more…

— Rajneesh

I notice that, in the lecture … which Prof. Lowry gave recently, in Paris … he brought forward certain freak formulae for…

— Henry Edward Armstrong

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

— David Eagleman

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

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

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

— Jane Goodall

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

— Mayim Bialik

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

— Anthony Standen

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

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

— Cornelia Parker

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

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

— Elvin C. Stakman

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

— Ernst Haas

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

Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and…

— Laurence J. Peter

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in…

— George Carlin