Scientist Quotes

1574 Scientist quotes by 998 unique authors

As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the… — Vladimir Nabokov
Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if… — Agatha Christie
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles… — Frank Herbert
It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach,… — Ann Brashares
I stood my ground. "You evil scientist are all the same--evil. Count me out." Fang and I brushed past Mr. God and walked quickly but… — James Patterson
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed. — Matt Ridley
I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find… — James Patterson
I just wish I could walk into my Senator’s office and say, “Senator Dude, Um, we have a problem with these sicko scientists…” But then… — James Patterson
After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned… — Kurt Vonnegut
What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but… — Ray Bradbury
That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it… — Esther Hicks
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing… — Walker Percy
Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter. — Dave Barry
NASA scientists have discovered a new form of life, unfortunately, it won't date them either. — Stephen Colbert
An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse --… — Sam Harris
In this world, perfection is an illusion. Reagrdless of all those who utter the contrary, this is the reality. Obviously mediocre fools will forever lust… — Tite Kubo
I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out. — Jim Benton
And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The… — Douglas Adams
I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid… — Michael Crichton
Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for… — William A. Dembski
Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology… — Neal Stephenson
But will I always love her? Does my love for her reside in my head or my heart? The scientist in her believed that emotion… — Lisa Genova
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone… — Steven Pinker
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the… — Robert M. Pirsig

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