Scientist Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

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 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.

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

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

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

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

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

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.