Scientist Quotes

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I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say,… — Richard P. Feynman
Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is… — Richard M. Nixon
Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a… — Soren Kierkegaard
Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was everything one thought… — Richard Dawkins
I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a… — Bobby Fischer
I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the… — John Taylor Gatto
The greatest scientists are artists as well. — Albert Einstein
Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan. — Kurt Vonnegut
Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion, we all have… — Marianne Williamson
Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly… — Carl Sagan
I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist. — Edsger Dijkstra
Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in… — Freeman Dyson
Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA sequence… — Edward Kennedy
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits. — Joanna Lumley
The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving… — Rosa DeLauro
I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is,… — Albert Einstein
The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple… — Dalai Lama
I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying it,… — Steve Irwin
However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate. — James Randi
I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem. — Doris Lessing
I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that… — Michio Kaku
Now is not the time to repudiate environmental balance, but rather it is the time for all of us to work together - politician, advocate,… — Robert Redford
Scientists are coming to recognise the effects of the mind on physical health. The sense of relaxation associated with inner peace involves not only being… — Dalai Lama
You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills — Leonardo da Vinci
We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists.… — Tupac Shakur

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