Scientist Quotes - Page 13

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

Any kind of person can be a scientist.

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.

We've got to set up in our own community our scientists and scholars that can check what is going into our people.

I am not a scientist, but I don't need to be.

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

I have never seen myself as an alarmist but rather as a scientist with a critical viewpoint, and in that sense I have always been a skeptic. I have devoted most of my career to developing models for predicting the weather, and in doing so I have learned the importance of validating forecasts against observed weather. As a result, that's an approach I strongly favor for "climate predictions." It's essential to validate model results, especially when dealing with complex systems such as the climate. It's essential do so properly if such predictions are to be considered credible.

Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.

The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

Science is a set of rules that keep the scientists from lying to each other.

Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

I think I was a born scientist.

A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.

Alice Stewart [is] a much underestimated scientist who has been an indomitable challenger of the establishment and a thorn in the flesh of the nuclear industry.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.

I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a disciplinary and sub-disciplinary specialty, so I am a psychologist and I am a social psychologist within that. But I think the exciting thing is to think about the social sciences in general and the nature of society. It's one of the hardest things to think about, because our brains aren't designed to think about these emergent entities. We're not good at it.

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.

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