Quotes About Scientist

Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

James Glass, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who has studied the delusions of schizophrenia, writes, "Delusion provides a certain, often unbreakable identity, and its absolute character can maneuver the self into an unyielding position. In this respect, it is the internal mirror of political authoritarianism, the tyrant inside the self … an internal domination as deadly as any external tyranny.

Stratton reminded himself to maintain the dispassionate attitude of a scientist.

I have a long attention span, and I am also a good scientist, and there are a lot of problems that remain in the organic agricultural movement that the government does not invest in solving.

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

A straightforward way of defining metaphysics is as the set of assumptions and practices present in the scientist's mind before he or she begins to do science.

Randall Lawrence Waterhouse hates Star Trek and avoids people who don't hate it, but even so he has seen just about every episode of the damn thing, and he feels, at this moment, like the Federation scientist who beams down to a primitive planet and thoughtlessly teaches an opportunistic pre-Enlightenment yahoo how to construct a phaser cannon from commonly available materials.

When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk the face of this earth. The man was connected to the universe in spooky ways. He discovered the laws of motion, the laws of gravity, the laws of optics. Then he turned 26.

Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.

You know it's true… Every disaster movie begins with a scientist being ignored.

Without a doubt, Einstein's greatest blunder was having declared that lambda was his greatest blunder.

Bosons, by the way, are named for the Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose.

Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.

ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.

To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place.

Yet every now and then, even a scientist can't help thinking of the Periodic Table as a zoo of one-of-a-kind animals conceived by Dr. Seuss.

Swiss-American astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky.

ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.

L'ignorance est l'état naturel de l'esprit pour un chercheur scientifique. Montrez-moi quelqu'un qui croit n'être en rien ignorant, et je vous montrerai quelqu'un qui n'a jamais cherché, ni affronté la frontière entre ce qui est connu et ce qui est encore inconnu dans l'univers.

These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this, he said. The scientist said, That's absolutely and precisely right.

I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.