Scientist Quotes

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.

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.

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

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.

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

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.

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

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

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

I just wanted to be a scientist.

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

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

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan.

I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket scientist. I think I'm good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family. That's what I think I'm good at.

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