Scientist Quotes

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

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

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order.

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

My dear colleague James Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end... The global warming 'time bomb,' 'disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.' These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home.

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

I play a scientist in a futuristic world in which 99% of the men have been wiped out. As a result, the women are nearly all homosexuals and the children are cloned.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

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