Scientist Quotes

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

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

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.

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.

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

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

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

I was going to be a scientist.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

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

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

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

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

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

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.

As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.