Scientist Quotes

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A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put… — Gottlob Frege
... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize and… — Edmund Blair Bolles
Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if… — Robert M. Sapolsky
There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre: e^(i… — Edward Kasner
My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist — Robin Williams
Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty,… — Ashley Montagu
When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that Black people have… — Mae Jemison
Everyone is free to set up an opinion and to adduce proofs in support of it. Whether, though, a scientist shall find it worth his… — Ernst Mach
The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human. — Tom Robbins
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it… — Rene Thom
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free… — Noam Chomsky
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to prove that cutting incomes to the poorest families will have a negative impact on kids. That… — Metiria Turei
You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it. — Berenice Abbott
Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be — Isaac Asimov
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. — Hans Eysenck
In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for… — Steven Pinker
Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily… — Ron Kind
One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As computer… — Larry Page
You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we… — Boris Johnson
One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables. — Michael Pollan
Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but because… — Arthur Caplan
[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven astronauts:] The public… — Freeman Dyson
At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using. — Peter Singer
We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking.… — Richard P. Feynman
My own ongoing research among secular Americans-as well as that of a handful of other social scientists who have only recently turned their gaze on… — Phil Zuckerman

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