Quotes About Scientist

Puggsy: There's--nothing to see. Gather, uh, over there. Excuse me, is there anything I can do? I am a scientist, sir. Is there any problem? Fred: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt things. He isn't a good swimmer and it's a little too soon for him to be out here unsupervised. Puggsy: Well, I can assure you, he's quite safe with me.

James Hansen, one of the most distinguished scientists to warn of the dangers of climate change, once said that being in his line of work is like screaming at people from behind a soundproof glass wall. You've written that being an author of fiction who is concerned with environmental questions often feels frighteningly similar.

Learning by trial and error, or experimentation, can be exciting, the lessons learned deeply engrained. Learning by failure is a remarkably good way of gaining knowledge. Failure is to be welcomed rather than avoided. It is a part of learning. It should not be feared by the engineer or scientist or indeed by anyone else.

In 1959, the scientist and novelist C. P. Snow gave a famous lecture, 'The Two Cultures', on the ever-growing and unhealthy divide he saw between science and the humanities.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool

Non è un vero scienziato chi ha timore che la gente lo ritenga pazzo.

But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

When I arrived there, looking like a mad scientist had tried to flay me open like a tiny Frankenstein, my mother freaked out in appropriate fashion.

It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount of space. How to do things efficiently, how to do them cleverly.

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

I was brought up as a physicist.

The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

I always wanted to understand the causes of happiness. I'm a bit of a scientist, I guess you could say.

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.

Bernays approached the age of mass media like a scientist in search of general principles, which he recorded in articles and books: Crystallizing Public Opinion, Propaganda, The Engineering of Consent.

What if God is a scientist who regards honest seeking after truth as the supreme virtue?