Scientists Quotes

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What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions. — Joseph Crowley
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. — Marie Curie
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote… — Richard Dawkins
Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same… — Richard Dawkins
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. — Alan Dershowitz
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs. — James Dyson
The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where,… — Sylvia Earle
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious. — Umberto Eco
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. — Albert Einstein
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here… — Ralph Ellison
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it. — Susan Faludi
I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what… — Joshua Foer
I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense… — Sam Harris
Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In… — Sam Harris
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. — Sam Harris
If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and… — Stephen Hawking
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. — Stephen Hawking
Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world. — Stephen Hawking

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