Scientists Quotes

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Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a… — Al Gore
The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing… — Richard M. Weaver
Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that… — Karl Popper
Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell. — Rick Perry
But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists who want to… — Mary Gaitskill
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's… — Noam Chomsky
Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up. — Sylvia Earle
Scientists have discovered a food that reduces a woman's sex drive by 99%. Wedding cake. — Jim Davidson
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive… — Nathan Deal
In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the… — Tammy Baldwin
Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists. — Walter E. Williams
But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply… — Stephen Jay Gould
We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the… — Franz Boas
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question… — Gerald Holton
Over the years, many Americans have made sacrifices in order to promote freedom and human rights around the globe: the heroic actions of our veterans,… — George H. W. Bush
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. — John Charles Polanyi
The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does. — Martin Gardner
A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions. — Frederick Seitz
Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood, and perhaps it… — Otto Robert Frisch
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found… — R. B. Braithwaite

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