Scientists Quotes

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

Okay, I'll say I would go back in time and bring scientists with me and create a hairspray that would not cause global warming. But it would still give us '80s hair.

The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.

Scientists are always skeptics.

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.

In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

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.

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.