Scientists Quotes

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Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the… — Tony Snow
Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma… — Judith Rodin
The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated… — John Barth
We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or later… — John Desmond Bernal
Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild… — Joe Meno
No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. ... Good scientists study the most important problems… — Peter Medawar
It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit… — Richard P. Feynman
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You… — Albert Einstein
Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science."… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and most successful confidence… — Vernon Coleman
DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed to bad nutrition.… — T. Colin Campbell
Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty,… — Ashley Montagu
When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that Black people have… — Mae Jemison
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it… — Rene Thom
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free… — Noam Chomsky
You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it. — Berenice Abbott
Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be — Isaac Asimov
Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily… — Ron Kind
One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As computer… — Larry Page
You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earthâ€”and yet sometimes we… — Boris Johnson

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