Scientist Quotes

1574 Scientist quotes by 998 unique authors

I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer… — Gordon Gee
Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too. — Kirstie Alley
So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily. — Peter Agre
I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight. — David Eagleman
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries… — David Eagleman
Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they… — Eliot Engel
Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad… — Larry Wall
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety,… — Jacques Monod
The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. — Edsger Dijkstra
It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization… — Alexis Carrel
The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time,… — Erwin Chargaff
A discussion between Haldane and a friend began to take a predictable turn. The friend said with a sigh, 'It's no use going on. I… — John B. S. Haldane
The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number. — Alexis Carrel
Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into… — Antonio Gramsci
A system such as classical mechanics may be 'scientific' to any degree you like; but those who uphold it dogmatically - believing, perhaps, that it… — Karl Popper
A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never… — Michio Kaku
[When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people. Then, as a chemist, I… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric… — R. D. Laing
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science. — Yann Martel
There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray. — Ray Davies
My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey. — Jim Fowler
I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions. — Nina Fedoroff
So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists… — Uri Geller
Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say… — Walter Gilbert
As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way… — Steven Hatfill

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