Scientist Quotes

1574 Scientist quotes by 998 unique authors

Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in… — Peter Medawar
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the… — Peter Medawar
All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the temerity to seek… — Peter Medawar
The fossil fuel industry will inevitably have to experience major cutbacks and, over the longer term, near-total demise. There is simply no choice in the… — Robert Pollin
Scientists have suddenly become aware of the magic quality of the Earth and the entire universe. — Thomas Berry
Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS. — Unknown Author
I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because… — Scarlett Thomas
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political… — Paul Wellstone
Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists. They… — Seth Godin
These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists, — Denis Hayes
Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing… — Yehuda Amichai
It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but… — Steven Weinberg
Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand more and more… — Steven Weinberg
Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by when said by world-famous scientists. — John Lennox
The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure [science] fiction. Theories… — John Lennox
When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew immediately… — Lefty Gomez
In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life.... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even… — Michael Behe
Many people, including many important and well-respected scientists, just don't want there to be anything beyond nature. They don't want a supernatural being to affect… — Michael Behe
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. — David Chalmers
Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith the existence… — Paul Davies
People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics -… — Paul Davies
Go as far as you can, [young scientists]. The world needs you badly. — E. O. Wilson
We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game — Murray Gell-Mann
I've often heard it said that there's a consensus of thousands of scientists on the global warming issue and that humans are causing a catastrophic… — John Christy
The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator… — Michael Crichton

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