Scientists Quotes

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Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge. — Walter Guido Vincenti
Science progresses not because scientists as a whole are passionately open-minded but because different scientists are passionately closed-minded about different things. — Henry H. Bauer
Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general… — David C. Cassidy
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. — James D. Watson
It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into… — Stanley B. Goldenberg
Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this… — Martin Durkin
The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot faster than… — Gwynne Dyer
Most scientists never look at UFO evidence, which leads to their conclusion that there is no evidence... — Bernard Haisch
When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility that some UFOs… — Don Berliner
Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global warming impacts, especially… — Jeff Goodell
Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system… — Roy Spencer
As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find… — Edwin Land
[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers,… — Ruben Hinojosa
We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that accurately represents reality. — Orlando Rodriguez
The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists… — Paola Antonelli
[The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on controversial issues such… — Bill Bryson
The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs… — Wendell Phillips
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed… — H. L. Mencken
Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything… — George Lois

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