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Quotes About Scientist

For many people, this would be the point where one might do some soul-searching introspection, some painful confronting of truths as a means of personal growth. Being a scientist, I decided to avoid this by Studying the Subject. Donning my lab coat and postponing a microscope nearby ,I started making phone calls.
~ Robert Sapolsky
Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.
~ Derek Walcott
A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
~ Francis Crick
A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.
~ Frederick Seitz
To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.
~ Carl Wilhelm Scheele
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
~ Konrad Lorenz
Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
~ Nate Silver
A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.
~ Isaac Asimov
The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit.
~ Stephen Toulmin
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.
~ David Eagleman
The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.
~ Douglas Adams
The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.
~ Pierre Duhem
RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.
~ Volker Braun
As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.
~ David Sarnoff
The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.
~ Cathy O'Neil
I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.
~ James Delingpole
I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.
~ James Hansen
I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.
~ Jeb Bush
A scientist first has to presuppose any theory based on available relevant data. In terms of such presupposition, a scientist begins his journey of scientific exploration as a philosopher.
~ Abhijit Naskar
A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.
~ Amit Kalantri