Scientist Quotes

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There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. . . . Many… — Michio Kaku
Some of the scientists, I believe, haven't they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There's a lot of differing opinions and… — George W. Bush
No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that… — Phillip E. Johnson
The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads… — George Mikes
The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic… — Stephen Hawking
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean… — Dave Barry
Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers… — Tim O'Reilly
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe… — Loren Eiseley
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to… — Milton Friedman
I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God… — Louis Agassiz
I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in… — Leo Szilard
I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I… — Ronald Reagan
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it. — George Wald
A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy,… — George Wald
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams
For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match… — James Gleick
It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does… — John Steinbeck
It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in… — Carl Sagan
The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at… — Konrad Lorenz
A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will. — Isaac Asimov

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