Scientists Quotes

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Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track… — Roger Bannister
You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries. — Lise Meitner
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their… — Hans Eysenck
The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone… — Mahatma Gandhi
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions. — Bill Joy
This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who… — Brooks Atkinson
That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian purposes is undoubtedly… — Mahatma Gandhi
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries. — Karl Pearson
Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead;… — Richard Hamming
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that… — E. O. Wilson
Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that… — Bill Bryson
Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee with Jesus Christ… — Freeman Dyson
You ask people, do you pray to a person or God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's standards of your… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are… — Albert Einstein
I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea that we would put American's economy at jeopardy based on scientific theory… — Rick Perry
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at… — Lise Meitner
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was… — Enrico Fermi
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is… — Sogyal Rinpoche

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