Scientist Quotes - Page 5

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.

Science is but an image of the truth.

I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.

Scientists are a bunch of romantics.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.

Scientist alone is true poet.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have.

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith the existence of a law-like order in nature that is at least in part comprehensible to us.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

If there are lessons to be drawn from the sciences, then that should be the concern of everyone, including scientists to the extent that they can make a contribution.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.

The manufactured consensus of the IPCC has had the unintended consequences of distorting the science, elevating the voices of scientists that dispute the consensus, and motivating actions by the consensus scientists and their supporters that have diminished the public's trust in the IPCC.

Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?

Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.