Scientist Quotes

1574 Scientist quotes by 998 unique authors

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments. — Alison Gopnik
A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are… — Stephen Jay Gould
I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher. — Brian Greene
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it. — Brian Greene
There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator. — Brian Greene
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and… — David Ben-Gurion
The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?'… — Paula Cole
I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted… — Francis Ford Coppola
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend… — David Cronenberg
Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions. — Joseph Crowley
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were… — Marie Curie
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. — Marie Curie
I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator. — Rachel Cusk
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. — Charles Darwin
Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall… — Ellen DeGeneres
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote… — Richard Dawkins
My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default. — Richard Dawkins
Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same… — Richard Dawkins
My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an… — Ellen DeGeneres
Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible? — Jacques Derrida
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. — Alan Dershowitz
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has… — Rita Dove

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