Scientist Quotes

1574 Scientist quotes by 998 unique authors

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them. — James A. Michener
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. — Marshall McLuhan
Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. — Donella Meadows
I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist. — Unknown Author
Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists. — Jose Mourinho
Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to… — Nathan Myhrvold
Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works. — Nathan Myhrvold
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. — Vladimir Nabokov
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as… — John Forbes Nash
I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert. — Edward Norton
Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly. — Conan O'Brien
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise. — Joyce Carol Oates
If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences… — Joyce Carol Oates
I was going to be a scientist. — Ben Okri
I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded,… — Susan Orlean
As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses. — Henry Paulson
As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international… — Saul Perlmutter
The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what… — Joe Perry
Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are… — Steven Pinker
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it… — Henri Poincare

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