Scientist Quotes

1574 Scientist quotes by 998 unique authors

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. — Robert Graves
Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and… — Alison Gopnik
I guess economists, it’s a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field, — Christine Lagarde
Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined, hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying… — Robert A. Baker
Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody else. I am… — Richard Dawkins
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and… — Cyrano de Bergerac
MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated… — Ambrose Bierce
You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great… — Marissa Mayer
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and… — Robert Nozick
The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics,… — Robert Nozick
But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not a scientist. — Ronald Reagan
[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She… — Ronald Reagan
To the naked eye, our oceans are beautiful. But scientists tell us that all of the world's fisheries will collapse by 2048, unless we change… — Ted Danson
This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she… — Soren Kierkegaard
What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors, and the entrepreneurs,… — Ludwig von Mises
One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not… — Carl Sagan
Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes. — Richard Hamming
... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle. — Honore de Balzac
We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a… — Adam Savage
Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it. — George Carlin
A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is… — Rick Yancey
A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom and achieve external… — B.K.S. Iyengar
The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood. — Max Landis

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