Scientist Quotes

1574 Scientist quotes by 998 unique authors

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility. — Peter Medawar
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. — Michael Crichton
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. — Loren Eiseley
We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic. — Barbara Kingsolver
So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor… — Paul Lockhart
The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody… — Joseph Campbell
We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority… — Jared Diamond
The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought… — Ayn Rand
Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell… — Carl Sagan
What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual… — Unknown Author
If killing [animal research scientists] is the only way to stop them, then I said killing them would certainly be justified. — Jerry Vlasak
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the… — Loren Eiseley
It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea… — Arthur C. Clarke
For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided by commercial operations.… — David Gelernter
There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form… — Glenn T. Seaborg
Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature. — Philip Emeagwali
Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box. — Roland Joffe
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists. — Roland Joffe
The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea that he pursues;… — Claude Bernard
Modern physics is describing what the ancient wisdom keepers of the Americas have long known. These shamans, known as 'the Earthkeepers,' say that we’re dreaming… — Alberto Villoldo
It opens our eyes to many quite weird possibilities about disease that most medical scientists, tending to be unaware of current evolutionary thought, don't think… — Paul W. Ewald
Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. “Biological evolution is… change in the properties of populations of organisms (you… — Douglas J. Futuyma
There are worse sins for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivial — Robert MacArthur
Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code). — Eric Lander
The earth is round, smoking is linked to lung cancer, gravity makes things fall, and humans are warming the planet. Scientists strongly agree on all… — Scott Mandia

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