Scientists Quotes
1148 quotes by 791 authors
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Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.
— Mary Hesse
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Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then the North is…
— Nhat Hanh
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There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail right through it. It is…
— Gwynne Dyer
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Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific…
— Werner Herzog
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It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of…
— Thomas Kuhn
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But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the…
— Joseph Rotblat
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Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that;…
— Nils-Axel Morner
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Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was everything one thought…
— Richard Dawkins
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I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the…
— John Taylor Gatto
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The greatest scientists are artists as well.
— Albert Einstein
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Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion, we all have…
— Marianne Williamson
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Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly…
— Carl Sagan
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Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA sequence…
— Edward Kennedy
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NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.
— Joanna Lumley
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The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving…
— Rosa DeLauro
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I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is,…
— Albert Einstein
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The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple…
— Dalai Lama
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I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying it,…
— Steve Irwin
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