Scientists Quotes
1148 quotes by 791 authors
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Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead,…
— John Charles Polanyi
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Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
— John Charles Polanyi
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Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
— John Charles Polanyi
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I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.
— Joseph Rotblat
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Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian…
— Fred Thompson
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The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in…
— Daniel Kahneman
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To build public support for what they're doing, scientists are always going to say there is the prospect to cure all these horrible diseases, but…
— Richard Ashcroft
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When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you…
— Walter Darby Bannard
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One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical,…
— Stella Adler
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All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the…
— Luther Burbank
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations…
— Rachel Carson
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Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
— Max Planck
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Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who…
— Steve Jobs
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Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try…
— Steve Jobs
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The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the…
— Rachel Carson
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Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who…
— Charles Fort
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America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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The problem ... is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to…
— Dave Barry
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You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really, that's what scientists…
— Dave Barry
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But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.
— Hilaire Belloc
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