Scientist Quotes

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Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little… — Michael Kinsley
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for… — Hannes Alfven
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time that the idea… — Edward Condon
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing… — Peter Medawar
Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines… — Hannes Alfven
Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been. — Theodore von Karman
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident… — Ernest Lawrence
We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search for truth provides… — Stanford Moore
The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels… — Arthur Compton
A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the truth all at… — Torbern Bergman
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country. — Unknown Author
Science is a set of rules that keep the scientists from lying to each other. — Unknown Author
Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists. — Percy Williams Bridgman
Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. — Unknown Author
Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they… — Frank Press
For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false.… — Nelson Goodman
It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading… — Dennis Flanagan
[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what… — David Quammen
'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A fact… — Gottlob Frege

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