Scientist Quotes - Page 7

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science.

If something comes up that is completely freaky, it's spiritual-looking to the scientist, the first explanation is not going to be that it's God, because the history of that has failed. It would have to be, like, the hundredth explanation.

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.

A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads.

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.