Scientist Quotes

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It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible… — John Desmond Bernal
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything… — George Lois
When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very… — Steven Pinker
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie. — Bill Condon
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a… — Al Gore
The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing… — Richard M. Weaver
Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that… — Karl Popper
Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell. — Rick Perry
I don't want to get too dippy about all this. If you take the view of the scientist and everything is in a state of… — Jimmy Page
But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists who want to… — Mary Gaitskill
The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great… — Noam Chomsky
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's… — Noam Chomsky
Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up. — Sylvia Earle
Scientists have discovered a food that reduces a woman's sex drive by 99%. Wedding cake. — Jim Davidson
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive… — Nathan Deal
In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the… — Tammy Baldwin
Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists. — Walter E. Williams
I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's just the opposite.… — Unknown Author
But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply… — Stephen Jay Gould
It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The… — Henry M. Morris
We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the… — Franz Boas
Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a… — Daniel Nathans
Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data… — George H. Mead
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question… — Gerald Holton

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