Scientist Quotes

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But when you come right down to it, the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at… — Lise Meitner
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was… — Enrico Fermi
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable… — Lewis Thomas
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment. — P.D. James
You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would. — Steve Wozniak
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to… — Bertrand Russell
We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity… — John Steinbeck
All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of… — Frank Herbert
I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the… — Thomas A. Edison
Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not inevitable… — Ronald Knox
What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that… — Stephen Jay Gould
Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?"… — Carl Sagan
The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new… — Freeman Dyson
[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea.… — Carl Sagan
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. — Linus Pauling
If you become too sceptical, you become scientists. If you become too childlike, you become religious. Science exists with doubt. Religion exists with wonder. If… — Rajneesh
I want to make meditation an absolute for all students, whatever the subject they may be studying, so their awareness becomes more and more clean… — Rajneesh

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