Scientist Quotes

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists.

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

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

The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.

I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.]

Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.

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

A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf.

Scientist believe in things, not in person

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

I'm not a scientist either, but I can use my brain, and I can talk to one.

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.

I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.

Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.

And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.

Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was.