Scientist Quotes
1574 Scientist quotes by 998 unique authors
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A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.
— Joss Whedon
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Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to…
— Daniel H. Wilson
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I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or…
— Robert Winston
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Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD…
— Robert Winston
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Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question that…
— Robert Winston
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My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
— Naomi Wolf
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My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist,…
— Tom Wolfe
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It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of…
— George Edward Woodberry
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Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.
— will.i.am
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Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is…
— Frank Zappa
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The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.
— Emil Zatopek
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As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.
— Francis Collins
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Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.
— Francis Collins
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Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.
— Helen Fisher
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I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all…
— Greg Graffin
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It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world…
— Anurag Kashyap
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Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have…
— Paul Stamets
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences,…
— Fritjof Capra
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18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.
— Bill Bryson
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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change…
— Carl Sagan
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Scientist believe in things, not in person
— Marie Curie
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
— Rachel Carson
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I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a…
— S. J. Perelman
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