Scientist Quotes

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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he… — Arthur C. Clarke
With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax… — Harold Wilson
Such a system would be very, very expensive and laborious to have, given the kinds of border we have. Scientists and engineers aren't even sure… — Janet Napolitano
Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does for many, the… — Pope John Paul II
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having… — Jean Rostand
I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe… — Wernher von Braun
If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No,… — Clifford Stoll
I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of… — Antony Hewish
Rejoice when other scientists do not believe what you know to be true. It will give you extra time to work on it in peace.… — Efraim Racker
Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly international in scope. ... Science is a collaborative effort. The… — John Bardeen
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked forever with its… — Max Delbruck
Using any reasonable definition of a scientist, we can say that 80 to 90 percent of all the scientists that have ever lived are alive… — Derek J. de Solla Price
The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of… — Carl Sagan
Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track… — Roger Bannister
You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic eye. In the… — Jesse Bering
You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries. — Lise Meitner
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the… — Phyllis McGinley
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their… — Hans Eysenck
The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone… — Mahatma Gandhi

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