Scientist Quotes

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

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

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

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

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.

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.

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

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.