Scientist Quotes

1574 Scientist quotes by 998 unique authors

Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by… — Ed Markey
My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists. — Eva Zeisel
Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status,… — Edwin Newman
Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature… — Paul Davies
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support. — Paul Davies
The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely… — Paul Davies
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and… — Paul Davies
When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to… — Paul Davies
How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth… — Fulton J. Sheen
One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise. — Thomas Dreier
Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field. — Jeff Goldblum
No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and… — Parker J. Palmer
If, as the scientist say, sex is such a driving force, why is so much of it nowadays found parked? — Henny Youngman
A book came out recently written by scientists and environmentalists that made me so angry. It said the only thing we have to worry about… — Jane Goodall
[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if… — Harold Wilson
A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature. — Annie Jump Cannon
I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists. — John Tuzo Wilson
No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him… — Stephen Toulmin
One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite… — David Hilbert
The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said-has been… — Peter Medawar
The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful. — Willard Van Orman Quine
The traditional boundaries between various fields of science are rapidly disappearing and what is more important science does not know any national borders. The scientists… — Sune Bergstrom
There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered.… — Linus Pauling
Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be… — Peter Medawar
[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that has been rendered… — Calvin Coolidge

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