Scientist Quotes
1574 Scientist quotes by 998 unique authors
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I realized, 'Oh my gosh! I'm having a stroke! I'm having a stroke!' The next thing my brain says to me is, 'Wow! This is…
— Jill Bolte Taylor
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Any scientist who tells you they know that GMOs are safe and not to worry about it, is either ignorant of the history of science…
— David Suzuki
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It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist…
— Felicity Jones
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Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for…
— James Agee
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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future. Â I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent application and…
— Jacque Fresco
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We have to learn how scientists arrive at decisions. Once you use the scientific method, it doesn't mean that your decisions will be perfect. They'll…
— Jacque Fresco
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I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what…
— Paul Farmer
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I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and…
— Galen
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To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your…
— C. Wright Mills
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Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists…
— Edgar Cayce
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My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But…
— Richard Rohr
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Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
— Haldan Keffer Hartline
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Exploration is the sport of the scientist
— Auguste Piccard
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Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that…
— Candace Bushnell
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The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates under…
— Frank Chodorov
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As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked…
— J. Allen Hynek
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Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller, and Counterclockwise is…
— Dan Ariely
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It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true of scientists. The…
— Frans de Waal
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The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
— Joseph McCabe
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When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can…
— Richard Lewontin
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Scientists don't believe anything.Scientists test things.
— Simon Conway Morris
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The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of…
— Nigel Calder
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The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we are…
— Carlo Rovelli
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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor…
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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