Quotes About Scientist

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

Truth?" Gilbert's tone was amused. "No real scientist talks about the truth.

a remarkable example of Nazi zoophilia is that a leading biologist was once punished for not giving worms enough anesthesia during an experiment.

Mathematics is to the scientist and the engineer a tool, to the professional mathematician a religion, but to the ordinary person a stumbling-block.

Science is the measure of all things, and when a scientist speaks about something, he or she speaks ex cathedra

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

And when we describe it as I shall do, it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift. To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

Man's mind is nothing more than "Grey Matter." Yet to the greatest scientist, it is the most complex challenge in the world of science ."

Isn't every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn't there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God.

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.

They try to order chaos not in the way an artist or scientist does, through a defining vision that creates structure and discipline, but by closing off and isolating themselves from that which does not fit. They become bureaucratic.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

Isn't every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn't there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

An impression is for the writer what an experiment is for the scientist, except that for the scientist the work of the intelligence precedes it, and for the writer it comes afterwards.

Seems like an irrelevant detail," Schmidt said. "And you call yourself a scientist," Wilson said. "No, I don't," Schmidt said. "Good thing, then," Wilson said.

I am indebted to Alan Wallace for the view of the Buddha as a great scientist, and for the metaphor of the telescope and the need to stabilize and calibrate it before viewing.

The impression is for the writer what experiment is for the scientist, with the difference that in the scientist the work of the intelligence precedes the experiment and in the writer it comes after the impression.

The scientist in him imagined the scientist in her; he sometimes pictured Violet as a tiny being in the cockpit of a vehicle she didn't understand. Row upon row of dials and switches and knobs, and no instruction manual. Nothing to do but stab and twist at random and see what happened. Punch that button, this appendage flaps. Interesting.

When I die I want my body to donate for research, but more specifically to a scientist who is working on bringing dead bodies back to life.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible