Quotes About Scientist

The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young would-be scientist.

There is no inconsistency in favouring Darwinism as an academic scientist while opposing it as a human being;

Parsimony is always in the forefront of a scientist's mind when choosing between theories, but it isn't always obvious how to judge it.

He was a highly qualified and genuinely promising young scientist, well on his way to achieving his dream of teaching science and doing research at a proper university.

But why, in any case, do we so readily accept the idea that the one thing you must do if you want to please God is believe in him? What's so special about believing? Isn't it just as likely that God would reward kindness, or generosity, or humility? Or sincerity? What if God is a scientist who regards honest seeking after truth as the supreme virtue? Indeed, wouldn't the designer of the universe have to be a scientist?

This is a book about thinking. One cannot talk about thinking in the abstract, at least not usefully. But one can talk about thinking about digital filters, and by studying how great scientists thought about digital filters, one learns, however gradually, to think like a great scientist.

They named me Kristin after some whale scientist in Australia, worked on the original translation team.

Worldview is not based on books; it is an internal form, which at times in a person with little education is expressed much more brightly, than in some other intellectual or scientist.

Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.

My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist.

The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

And at that pivotal moment, the University of Tennessee came calling. So did forensic anthropology. My career as "Indian grave-robber number one" was over. My true vocation—as a forensic scientist—was about to begin.

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.

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. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.