Scientists Quotes · Page 6

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

— Barack Obama

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“And even with science there is faith. Dumb scientists just deny this.”

— Sarah Noffke

“If fish were scientists, probably the last thing they would discover is water!”

— William J. Webb

I don't necessarily have friends who are forensic scientists, but I have tons of friends who are cops.

— Carmine Giovinazzo

The more scientists I talk to, the less I believe in UFOs.

— James Doohan

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself.

— Jacob Bronowski

One thing scientists do is to find order among a large number of facts, and one way to do that across fields…

— Alan Stern

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. 'If I do this, what will happen?' is both the motto of the child…

— James Gleick

Scientists have a tendency to believe in absolutes, in studies and the repeating of them. Psychoanalysis is firmly based in subjective accounts.…

— Siri Hustvedt

One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise.

— Thomas Dreier

“When he had first started at the center, he had liked to think that he was unexpectedly cool-looking for such a job.…

— China Miéville

Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

— Peter Medawar

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all…

— Frank Press

I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.

— Heidi Hammel

The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body…

— Vannevar Bush

We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from 'real' work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly…

— Michael Nielsen

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We…

— Richard Dawkins

I think it's very common that scientists or technical people have an artistic side. Sometimes they are very accomplished musicians. Sometimes they…

— Hope Jahren

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether…

— Ulrich Beck

Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody…

— Hans Eysenck

In the 1980s a small group of individuals became concerned about the Earth's temperature and what it might do in the future.…

— Walter Cunningham

I think Yandex is something in between two different cultures. One originated from the old Soviet culture of the scientific institute. It…

— Arkady Volozh

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

— Steven Wright

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

— Daniel Kahneman

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

— Anonymous

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

— Anonymous

Some of the 'aha' insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects.

— Martin Rees

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

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

— Robert Barany

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

— James A. Michener

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

— Jonathan Miller

I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

— John Tuzo Wilson

“Scientific facts alone are futile without a conscientious soul to work on them.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— E. O. Wilson

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

— John Lennox

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

— Steven Weinberg

I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?

— James Merrill

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

— James Newman