Scientist Quotes

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.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

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

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

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.

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

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.