Quotes About Scientists

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike!

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.

I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.

The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.

NASA scientists announced the discovery of 50 new planets, among them what they're calling Super Earth. It's indistinguishable from regular earth until it removes its glasses.

Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.

[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.

If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

Dogbert: Scientists have discovered the gene that makes some people love golf. Dilbert: How can they tell it's the golf gene? Dogbert: It's plaid and it lies.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

Almost all science is done by very normal people