Scientist Quotes · Page 6

Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.

— Walter E. Williams

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.

— Chris Prentiss

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

— Jim Fowler

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

— Nate Silver

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

— Sinclair Lewis

There are worse sins for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivial

— Robert MacArthur

Every scientist dreams of doing something that can help the world.

— Tu Youyou

Well, I think that, you know, there's often two ways to become a scientist. One is to actually get your Ph.D. and…

— Steve Bullock

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways…

— Anne Roe

The earth is round, smoking is linked to lung cancer, gravity makes things fall, and humans are warming the planet. Scientists strongly…

— Scott Mandia

We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts,

— John F. Kerry

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

— Charles Glover Barkla

It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.

— Philip Kitcher

The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy…

— Lewis Wolpert

I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all…

— Naomi Novik

If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the…

— Ben Goldacre

“The scientist’s skin crackled with excitement. “That’s the question that humans always ask—always, always. They want to scoop out the brains of…

— Annalee Newitz

I have been one of the guys who have been skeptical of global warming from the beginning. The jury is obviously still…

— Michael Grimm

The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Virtually every scientist now concedes that universe and time itself had beginning. So, whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe…

— Lee Strobel

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists…

— Steve Jobs

All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will…

— Henri Poincare

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are…

— Steve Irwin

“Having spent all my life among academics, I can tell you that hearing how wrong they area is about as high on…

— Frans de Waal

Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in…

— Terry Pratchett

The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists.…

— Anonymous

It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer…

— William Golding

All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they…

— Brock Adams

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and…

— Edwin Land

I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists…

— Charles Krauthammer

I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I…

— John Charles Polanyi

“Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“As a scientist, you must embrace the inconstancy of knowledge.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“From a social standpoint the man of science does not exist.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation.

— Robert Jastrow

“He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.”

— Robert G. Ingersoll

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

— E. O. Wilson

“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.”

— Amit Kalantri

To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.

— Robert Andrews Millikan