Scientist Quotes - Page 12

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.

The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.

To build public support for what they're doing, scientists are always going to say there is the prospect to cure all these horrible diseases, but they're cautious for the most part in saying when those cures will arrive.

The Al Gore movie cashed in on his personality and the question of where he had been in the six years since his failed US presidential bid. The same movie starring any NASA scientist would have lost money.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

When I look back on it, I think, "Why didn't you stop the cruelty earlier?" To stand back was contrary to my upbringing and nature. When I stood back as a noninterfering experimental scientist, I was, in a sense, as drawn into the power of the situation as any prisoners and guards.

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.

I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

A scientist is just a kid who never grew up.

scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.

At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong claims about the scientific evidence, lest contrarians "attack us". Another said that she'd rather err on the side of conservatism in her estimates, because then she feels more "secure."

Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it.

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said], "And the, um, a microwave, uh," you know, then you don't sound right, but if you can just get it out without stumbling then you're going to sound fine.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I'm not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I'm not a scientist.

Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.

Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.

I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.