Scientists Quotes
1148 quotes by 791 authors
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When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level
— Brian Greene
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How did you learn all this?" Vic sighed. "See, while you spend all your time making out with Balthazar, and Raquel stays holed up with…
— Claudia Gray
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The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art…
— Stephen Fry
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Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.
— Carl Sagan
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All it takes,†said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the…
— Margaret Atwood
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Fang snorted in disbelief. "On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we have a gang…
— James Patterson
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I whirled around and saw no one. No psychotic mad scientists, anyway. "Jackpot, Max! Jackpot!" It was was Fang, and he was giggling hysterically. For…
— James Patterson
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Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.
— Barack Obama
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I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the…
— Jose Saramago
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Uh-huh," I said. "Because all you mad, evil scientists sit around whipping up batches of Pillsbury's finest during your coffee breaks. I mean, this is…
— James Patterson
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Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if…
— Agatha Christie
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Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles…
— Frank Herbert
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It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach,…
— Ann Brashares
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I just wish I could walk into my Senator’s office and say, “Senator Dude, Um, we have a problem with these sicko scientists…†But then…
— James Patterson
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What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but…
— Ray Bradbury
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That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it…
— Esther Hicks
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Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.
— Dave Barry
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NASA scientists have discovered a new form of life, unfortunately, it won't date them either.
— Stephen Colbert
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