Scientists Quotes

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We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer… — Thomas Kuhn
Most scientists who are religious look for God in what science does understand and has explained. So the way in which my view is different… — Kenneth R. Miller
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics,… — Carl Sagan
Some scientists find, or so it seems, that they get their best ideas when smoking; others by drinking coffee or whisky. Thus there is no… — Karl Popper
Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them, and even the… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
That there is no such thing as the scientific method, one might easily discover by asking several scientists to define it. One would find, I… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying… — Karl Popper
This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love. — Meg Cabot
Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. — Bill Bryson
I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore the ocean and… — Brian Skerry
Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far… — Aubrey de Grey
As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to… — Brian Greene
The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly. — Alison Gopnik
Scientists are supposed to study animals in a totally objective fashion, similar to the way we inspect a rock or measure the circumference of a… — Frans de Waal
One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there… — Frans de Waal
One thing I can take credit for, along with the rest of show business, is when the red ribbons were out, we cured AIDS. Any… — Gilbert Gottfried
We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social problems, informing political… — Marcus du Sautoy
Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named. — Jack Horner
Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that… — Graham Hawkes
Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American woolly… — Hendrik Poinar

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