Scientist Quotes

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Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same.… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science,… — Adolf Hitler
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for… — Isaac Asimov
Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe… — Lise Meitner
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago… — Hermann Kolbe
A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists… — George Wald
What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to… — Maria Montessori
What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up? — Jean Rostand
A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with which… — Talcott Parsons
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them. — Mark Twain
Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which… — Harry S. Truman
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. — Mark Twain
That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove… — Mark Twain
To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field… — Thomas Kuhn
All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language,… — Henri Poincare
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by… — Martin Gardner
Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down. — Russell Baker
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social… — Karl Pearson

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