Scientist Quotes

1574 Scientist quotes by 998 unique authors

You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is. — Chris Prentiss
Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less completely, of the… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson
Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance… — Gian-Carlo Rota
What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and… — Henri Poincare
It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is quite different. The… — Ralph Caplan
A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this. — Rudy Rucker
Did you know that Jacques Benveniste, one of the world's leading homeopathic 'scientists', now claims that you can email homeopathic remedies? Yeah, see, what you… — Nick Hornby
British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray! — Jimmy Carr
A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that… — Russell L. Ackoff
It is the responsibility of those of us involved in today's biomedical research enterprise to translate the remarkable scientific innovations we are witnessing into health… — Elias Zerhouni
Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure… — David R. Brower
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A… — Laozi
Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians learn a more… — Howard S. Becker
There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn't. If he… — H. L. Mencken
From the cranberry cancer scare of the 1950s to the Alar-in-apples hysteria of the 1980s, from the "new ice age" of the 1960s to the… — Harry Browne
Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence. — Mary Hesse
Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then the North is… — Nhat Hanh
There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail right through it. It is… — Gwynne Dyer
Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific… — Werner Herzog
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of… — Thomas Kuhn
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the… — Joseph Rotblat
I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills. — Terri Windling
Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology… — Stephen Jay Gould
Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-confidence… — Ayn Rand
You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that;… — Nils-Axel Morner

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