Scientists Quotes

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A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work. — Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and… — Isaac Asimov
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong. — Isaac Asimov
Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they could… — I. Bernard Cohen
We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot… — Frank P. Ramsey
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists. — Richard P. Feynman
May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give… — Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more… — Edward Teller
You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not… — Richard P. Feynman
Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe. — Marcello Truzzi
The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something that… — Vannevar Bush
The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Scientists are complaining that the new dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give… — Jay Leno
As scientists you must keep your minds open. There is no use having blind faith in Me, in Sahaja Yoga, in anything because blindness will… — Nirmala Srivastava
Science is absolutely incomplete unless and until the scientists are Realised Souls. Medicine is incomplete, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, everything is incomplete unless and until you… — Nirmala Srivastava
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more… — Denis Waitley
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher, That might not necessarily be true. That's never happened. There're no… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I'm sorry, did I say 'scientists'? I meant Irish people. — Tina Fey
Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds exquisitely organized to… — Donald Cram

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