Scientist Quotes - Page 14

I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.

It should be totally fine to question the objectivity of scientists and the power structures in scientific institutions. The physical laws of the universe are objective, but human beings in any context are not. That includes with regard to science. To some extent, the supposed objectivity of science has given a lot of extra cover to very subjective and eccentric approaches to exploring aspects of ourselves and the universe around us.

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.

A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about.

I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough.

There is no debate among any statured scientists of what is happening. The only debate is the rate at which it is happening.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.

It’s ironic that as scientists that don’t believe in god, were the ones that are closest to god.

Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

There is no last word in research, and that includes climate research. It's never the truth that scientists offer, but only our best possible approximation of reality. But that often gets forgotten in the way the public perceives and describes our work.

Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some times make claims that are misunderstood by the public.

The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates under an inner compulsion to get the most out of life with the least expenditure of labor.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?

I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didnt wear off, but I found other interests.

Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true.

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun!

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

The big question that scientists haven't even begun to get an answer for is how many species of microorganisms are there? Now, this is not stamp collecting. What we need is experts totally devoting their research to everything they can find out about every species, in a community of scientists who appreciate that every fact counts...everything new you learn about any species in any group is worth publishing somewhere.

Scientists are always skeptics.

Science is what scientists do.