Scientist Quotes
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Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.
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Recognition by one's peers is the goal of every scientist.
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Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.
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Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable.
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This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. It becomes a habit of thought. Once acquired, we cannot retreat from it anymore.
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Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.
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I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.
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Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.
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This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.
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Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.
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A good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.
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I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.
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Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.
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I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.
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Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may have tipped the balance...a particularly harsh jolt to polar bears.
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The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something which can he solved." And hence the scientist does not use that popular phrase. We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.
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I do love science. My father is a scientist.
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Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.
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In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end.
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The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.
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By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ of imagination.
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One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.
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Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
