Scientist Quotes

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[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only the… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found… — Ernst Mayr
You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool. — Douglas Adams
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. — Jean Rostand
Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the… — Donald Cram
I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have had an intense… — Luis Walter Alvarez
In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply troubling, and a… — George W. Bush
The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis… — Lewis Mumford
It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because.… — John Charles Polanyi
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being… — Robin G. Collingwood
I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow… — John Charles Polanyi
I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But I… — Albert Claude
We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement… — Richard Willstatter
To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist. — Timothy Leary
On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist all week and… — Ernst Mayr
If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis… — Paul Dirac
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. — Ashley Montagu
From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent agent in the… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the… — Andy Rooney
The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists… — Thomas Kuhn

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