Scientist Quotes

1574 Scientist quotes by 998 unique authors

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that. — Chris Shays
Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I don't believe it… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Most scientists assumethat life can only exist in physical life form. They send spaceships to other planets, looking for signs of physical life, not considering… — Choa Kok Sui
There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or… — Terry Pratchett
The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are… — C.S. Lewis
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can… — George Andrew Olah
I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton. — Walter Isaacson
It is shameful that there are so few women in science In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in… — Chien-Shiung Wu
My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is that he felt… — Alex Webb
The journals want the papers that make the sexiest claims. And scientists believe that the way you succeed is having splashy papers in Science or… — Michael Eisen
One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their lives… — John Silber
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. — Evan Esar
Children often have been likened to scientists. Both ask fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. Both also ask innumerable questions that seem utterly… — Unknown Author
Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build. — Fred Brooks
Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them… — Herbert Simon
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions… — Alan Watts
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences… — R. Buckminster Fuller
A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely… — R. Buckminster Fuller
We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what… — Alan Alda
What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool… — Michael Shermer
One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. — Richard Hamming
Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure… — John Pople
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more… — John Pople
A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was. — Theodore von Karman
Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds:… — Jacob Bronowski

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