Scientists Quotes

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I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists. — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging… — John Kenneth Galbraith
One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality. — A. S. Byatt
Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ... — Albert Einstein
We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn… — Albert Einstein
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn… — Ruth Benedict
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and… — Phyllis McGinley
The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now… — Florence King
In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the… — Donald Knuth
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations,… — James Bryant Conant
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. — Imre Lakatos
Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and… — Irving Langmuir
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most… — Edward Mills Purcell
Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior… — Michael Polanyi
Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by… — Michael Polanyi
My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and… — Michael Polanyi
The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own… — Michael Polanyi
I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary… — Burt Rutan
For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've… — Mary Roach
Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners. — Rene Redzepi

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