logo

Quotes About Scientist

Capability doesn't equal intent, Doctor. Do you want what she knows or not? Because if you keep looking at her like the caged lab rat, she'll keep looking at you like the evil bloody scientist with the big syringe.
~ Joel Shepherd
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.
~ Ann Druyan
Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.
~ John Pople
Deborah Harry: Giorgio was great. He's a funny personality. In a way, he's a scientist. A bit like Leonardo da Vinci, he's this multilayered artist, a scientist, a curious person. He's kind of a mathematician, and we were all sort of in awe of him.
~ Dylan Jones
Science] presupposes as data principles that are themselves thoroughly lacking in actual rationality. In so far as the intuitive environing world, purely subjective as it is, is forgotten in the scientific thematic, the working subject is also forgotten, and the scientist is not studied.
~ Edmund Husserl
The contemporary political scientist believes that he can avoid the necessity of moral judgments and that he can help frame public policy without committing himself to any ethical position.
~ Murray Rothbard
If you are a natural scientist, a publication the journal Science carries enormous prestige.
~ Abhijit Banerjee
It's always a tough call deciding whether, as a scientist, you should argue publicly with the creationists. It's a dilemma that I encounter frequently in another subject area: Does it make sense to bandy words with someone from the UFO community?
~ Seth Shostak
Forrest Mims is the author of the famous book 'Getting Started in Electronics,' published by RadioShack for many years. I bought the book in the 1980s and had a blast making the projects in it. When I was editor-in-chief of 'MAKE,' I asked Forrest to write a column for the magazine, called 'The Backyard Scientist.'
~ Mark Frauenfelder
I'm first and foremost a scientist.
~ Dean Ornish
I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.
~ Lucy Hawking
As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.
~ Thomas R. Insel
Marie Curie is in a class all her own as the first female winner and still the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different science categories. An astounding scientist.
~ Donna Strickland
I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.
~ Sheldon Lee Glashow
She, Henry Horesman's daughter, was to tell the most important person in this behemoth country, whether or not the vaccine that he'd allowed every person under the age of 20 in the USSR to take (a mind boggling 77 million young people), a vaccine given to him by a scientist from his archenemy - the US - was safe and effective? If it was a flop, or if she misrepresented its efficacy, there would be world war.
~ Lynn Cullen
The neophyte scientist, recently come or converted to the world view of science, can be every bit as fanatical as a Christian crusader or a soldier of Allah.
~ M. Scott Peck
I like here to think of another Fred, the eminent British scientist Fred Hoyle, and his theory of the universe, in which matter is continuously being created, with the universe expanding but not dissipating. As island galaxies rush away from each other into eternity, new clouds of gas are condensing into new galaxies. As old stars die, new stars are being born. Mr. Melcher lived in this universe of continuous creation and expansion.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.
~ Matt Walsh
A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart of a missionary The spirit of a crusader.
~ Y. C. James Yen
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
~ David Cronenberg
As the French cognitive scientist Dan Sperber put it, cultures are epidemics of mental representations.
~ John Brockman
Lack of certainty is precisely what makes conclusions more reliable than the conclusions of those who are certain, because the good scientist will be ready to shift to a different point of view if better evidence or novel arguments emerge. Therefore certainty is not only something of no use but is also in fact damaging, if we value reliability.
~ John Brockman
The first scientist to contemplate the significance of places where things apparently cease to exist or become infinite ('singularities' that we would Now call them) in Newtonian Theory where the 18th century scientist leonhard Euler and Roger boscovich.
~ John D. Barrow
I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.
~ Benoit Mandelbrot