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Quotes About Scientists

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
~ Walter Kaufmann
Britain punches way above its weight in science, and I think we need to continue to do that, and anything that makes it easier to bring scientists in will be very welcome.
~ John O'Keefe
What is so clearly in the national interest is everything the government is doing in its strong, one nation domestic policy agenda: more police on the streets, more doctors and nurses in our hospitals, a welcoming face to scientists and international students.
~ Jo Johnson
The fact is all of the most highly successful scientists I know work practically all the time.
~ Paul Greengard
Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.
~ Chip Conley
Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea.
~ Greg MacGillivray
The world is looking for big data scientists, and there just aren't enough to go around.
~ Gurjeet Singh
People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.
~ Jonathan Miller
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
~ John Polanyi
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
~ James Dyson
Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
~ Aaron D. O'Connell
I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.
~ Leonard Susskind
If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.
~ Rita Dove
It is a central obligation of politicians as well as journalists, researchers, scientists, and academicians to inform the public of the truth, and to identify lies without fear of retribution. It is the civic responsibility of all of us to check the facts we read or hear, to find and depend upon reliable sources, to share the truth with others, and hold accountable those who lie to us or suppress the truth.
~ Robert B Reich
Those scientists in France Worried about raising the chance A guitar would prompt "Oui" To a stranger's startling plea Need not have been so troubled, Phone numbers more than doubled.
~ Robert B. Cialdini
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy. —Albert Einstein
~ Laura Dave
Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.
~ Harry Houdini
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
~ Richard Feynman
If people don't have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.
~ Brian Cox
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
~ Isaac Asimov
Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
~ Nancy Reagan
It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.
~ Jennifer Tour Chayes
Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.
~ Simone Weil
Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars