Scientist Quotes

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[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against… — Thomas Huxley
I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the Star Wars program… — Michio Kaku
Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns to talk every… — Hermann Bondi
Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person. — Richard P. Feynman
If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips. — Penelope Fitzgerald
Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all… — Tim Cahill
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists. — Barry Commoner
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known… — Barry Commoner
Scientists are always skeptics. — Donald A. Norman
The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. — Hans Selye
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers… — Alan Lightman
As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it. — Alan Lightman
As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation… — Alan Lightman
You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true. — Christopher Hampton
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot… — Steven Levitt
There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what… — Brian Andreas
If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure… — James Lee Burke
The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality… — Johnny Ball
One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've… — Gene Cernan
Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations such as Microsoft… — Aravind Adiga
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the… — Arthur Compton
I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions. — Thomas Cech
I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try… — David Deutsch
Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions… — Nathan Deal
The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental. — Kenichi Fukui

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