Scientist Quotes

1574 Scientist quotes by 998 unique authors

Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband… — Ray Bradbury
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. — Richard P. Feynman
I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te… — D. H. Lawrence
The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny — Eoin Colfer
Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your… — Warren Ellis
I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of… — Jamaica Kincaid
Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet. — Mark Haddon
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level — Brian Greene
How did you learn all this?" Vic sighed. "See, while you spend all your time making out with Balthazar, and Raquel stays holed up with… — Claudia Gray
The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art… — Stephen Fry
Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from… — Robert M. Pirsig
In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work. — Carl Sagan
A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere. — Ursula K. Le Guin
All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the… — Margaret Atwood
Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and leave… — James Patterson
Fang snorted in disbelief. "On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we have a gang… — James Patterson
I whirled around and saw no one. No psychotic mad scientists, anyway. "Jackpot, Max! Jackpot!" It was was Fang, and he was giggling hysterically. For… — James Patterson
Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models. — Barack Obama
I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the… — Jose Saramago
Uh-huh," I said. "Because all you mad, evil scientists sit around whipping up batches of Pillsbury's finest during your coffee breaks. I mean, this is… — James Patterson
What do I do? (Jeff) Well, not to insult a man who looks like a rocket scientist in comparison to you, but…run, Forrest, run. (Rafael) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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