Scientist Quotations

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.

I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didnt wear off, but I found other interests.

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists

I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us.

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

I grew up in Muenchen where my father has been a professor for pharmaceutic chemistry at the university. He had studied chemistry and medicine, having been a research student in Leipzig with Wilhelm Ostwald, the Nobel Laureate 1909. So I became familiar with the life of a scientist in a chemical laboratory quite early.

Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject.

My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day, along with several physicians and scientist colleagues, I take regular periodical lessons taught by a Rabbinical scholar on how the Jewish law views moral and ethical problems related to modern medicine and science.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

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

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

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

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

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

A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.

I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

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.

Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

I don't view myself as a practitioner of a particular skill or method. I'm constantly looking at what's the most interesting problem that I could possibly work on. I really try to figure out what sort of scientist I need to be in order to solve the problem I'm interested in solving.

There are - any independent study, from any scientist that's not funded by Syngenta, has found similar problems with atrazine, not just my work on frogs.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

I think in the sciences there is still the general belief that America is still tops. For America to lose that, I think, would be very bad, not just speaking as a scientist myself. I think it would be very bad for the morale of the whole country.

The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.

The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

There's no term to the work of a scientist.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change.

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.

I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

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.

I'm a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior vice president - for many of those years, writing SF as a hobby - until, in 2004, I began writing full time.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then that is a deliberate decision, and one that can't realistically go unnoticed.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a lecture in a high squeaky voice from inhaling helium. It is written nowhere in the math of probability theory that one may have no fun.

Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

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

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of living that's based on the use of non-renewable resources won't last.

At 5 years old, I saw 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and I was so scared when Costello sat himself down in the lap of the monster, not realizing where he was. My friends teased me. They were older, 8 years old. And my goal was to become a mad scientist and get back at them. And here I am, mad as hell!

I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School. It's a summer program which aims to help kids to learn how to build the things that they think of.

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

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.

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the limits on applications of our understanding of the genome. Should there be limits? I think there should. I think the public has expressed their concern about ways this information might be misused.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

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

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.

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

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

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

I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one's family environment, depending on what stage of one's life and career a scientist is at.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.

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.

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

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

Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For species that depend on hearing for survival - to find food, migrate, and communicate - any hearing loss could be catastrophic. As one scientist noted, a deaf whale is a dead whale.

Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.

The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at the moment.

I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny. I started doing stand-up to add another level to my game. I feel that I'm a young rookie with a veteran's skill.

Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos) based on this idea. But my personal opinion is that mathematics may be a hard way to describe ideas like love or democracy.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

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

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