Scientists Quotes

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.

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.

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

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.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

Kids are natural scientists.

I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.

The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

Right now, I am doing the reverse of molecular gastronomy. I'm working with scientists to find ingredients and produce that are proven to be good for you.