Scientists Quotes

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Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them… — Herbert Simon
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences… — R. Buckminster Fuller
We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what… — Alan Alda
One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. — Richard Hamming
Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds:… — Jacob Bronowski
The Russell Cosmogony with its new concepts of light, matter, energy, electricity and magnetism is a simple yet complete, consistent and workable cosmogony which will… — Walter Russell
We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools… — Thomas Cech
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation,… — John Polkinghorne
There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all… — Thomas Berry
As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their… — Robert Barany
The unprecedented development of science and technology... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever… — Robert Platt
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. — Sheri S. Tepper
For mad scientists who keep brains in jars, here's a tip: Why not add a slice of lemon to each jar, for freshness. — Jack Handey
I wish scientists would come up with an ear of corn that was big and round, because then when you were eating it, it'd be… — Jack Handey
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be — Evelyn Waugh
I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons - and, for… — Hans Bethe
Today we are rightly in an era of disarmament and dismantlement of nuclear weapons. But in some countries nuclear weapons development still continues. Whether and… — Hans Bethe
Environmental scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The only way to… — Tadatoshi Akiba
Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before. — Owen Chamberlain
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. — Michael Crichton

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