Scientist Quotes - Page 9

The poets think about war more than the social scientists.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

If the theory accurately predicts what they [scientists] see, it confirms that it's a good theory. If they see something that the theory didn't lead them to believe, that's what Thomas Kuhn calls an anomaly. The anomaly requires a revised theory - and you just keep going through the cycle, making a better theory.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept of God and on the existence of God?

Exploration is the sport of the scientist

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

Tilth is something every farmer can recognize but no scientist can measure.

Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.

Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly.

As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

Let's put research into the hands of legitimate scientists, not pot profiteers.

The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist - a skill which he shares with many other scientists, but in which he has perhaps a certain comparative advantage.

[My favorite scientist] Michio Kaku. He deals with wormholes. Check him out. He's great.

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.

I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.