Scientist Quotes - Page 8

The worst scientist is he who is not an artist; the worst artist is he who is no scientist.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

The scientist states that pressure is exerted outwards in all directions equally, whereas natural pressure (e.g. air pressure) is exerted inwards from all directions equally.

When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no one.

If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some point stopped and "history" took over is absurd, though it is widespread among various social scientists and humanists.

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.

The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can.

The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.

Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.

Virtually every scientist now concedes that universe and time itself had beginning. So, whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe must have had a cause.

There will be well-testable theories, hardly testable theories, and non-testable theories. Those which are non-testable are of no interest to empirical scientists. They may be described as metaphysical.

Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.

Isn't it amazing what scientists can accomplish when no one makes them stop?

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

A scientist should be the happiest of men.