Scientists Quotes

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I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists. — John Tuzo Wilson
No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him… — Stephen Toulmin
One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite… — David Hilbert
The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said-has been… — Peter Medawar
The traditional boundaries between various fields of science are rapidly disappearing and what is more important science does not know any national borders. The scientists… — Sune Bergstrom
There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered.… — Linus Pauling
Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be… — Peter Medawar
[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against… — Thomas Huxley
I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the Star Wars program… — Michio Kaku
Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns to talk every… — Hermann Bondi
Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person. — Richard P. Feynman
If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips. — Penelope Fitzgerald
Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all… — Tim Cahill
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists. — Barry Commoner
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known… — Barry Commoner
Scientists are always skeptics. — Donald A. Norman
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers… — Alan Lightman
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot… — Steven Levitt
There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what… — Brian Andreas
One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've… — Gene Cernan

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