Scientist Quotes

1574 Scientist quotes by 998 unique authors

The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Soils could also be giving up their carbon stores: evidence emerged in 2005 that a vast expanse of western Siberia was undergoing an unprecedented thaw.… — David Adam
The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,500 scientists) has provided the world community with first class assessments of the… — Klaus Topfer
My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a scientist and physician.… — David Plotz
I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of… — Tony Abbott
If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations.… — Agnes Denes
The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only… — Eric Hoffer
I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along. — Erma Bombeck
Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in… — Bill Bryson
in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or… — Arthur Koestler
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. — Pablo Picasso
An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains. — Anton Chekhov
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. — Konrad Lorenz
Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have underestimated the woolly creatures. In fact, the British scientific community… — Jon Stewart
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man. — Jacob Bronowski
The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have… — Vaclav Havel
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise. — Edward Weston
It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to… — Gary Zukav
Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man. — Hans Morgenthau
Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the… — Antoine Lavoisier
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead,… — John Charles Polanyi
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. — John Charles Polanyi
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society. — John Charles Polanyi
The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact. — Herbert Read

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