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.

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

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

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.

Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

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.

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

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

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.

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.]

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

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

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.

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

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

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