Scientist Quotes
1574 Scientist quotes by 998 unique authors
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You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.
— Philip Pullman
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Yeah,” said Iggy. “But what now? Let’s do something fun.” I guess being on the run from bloodthirsty Erasers and insane scientists wasn’t enough fun…
— James Patterson
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I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.
— Ryan North
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It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not…
— Carl Sagan
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Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are…
— Daniel Handler
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A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not…
— B.F. Skinner
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Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as…
— Peter Benchley
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I saw the logic that they used, and the death of a thousand cuts as experimental scientists slowly chipped away at the belief that the…
— Deborah Harkness
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(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times…
— Tom Robbins
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Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
— Frank Herbert
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while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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If it makes you feel any better, you’re not as bad as Keith. He was here earlier today and was so nervous, he literally kept…
— Richelle Mead
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Here is how you know someone has had a good idea: Other people freely admit to their friends that said idea has changed their lives.…
— Kevin Hearne
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My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another…
— Jonathan Lethem
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Scientists tend to risk theories they admire
— Stephen Hawking
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1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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How can you be sure?" "I'm a doctor, Jenna. And a scientist." "Does that make you an authority on everything? What about a soul, Father?…
— Mary E. Pearson
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Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung…
— Deb Caletti
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It’s ironic that as scientists that don’t believe in god, were the ones that are closest to god.
— Hiromu Arakawa
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Who's Myrnin?" Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss." "You realize no part of that sentence made…
— Rachel Caine
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... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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