Scientist Quotes

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

  

  Roland Joffe
  • Thinking
  • Seems
  • Indian

• A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Doubt
  • Progress
  • Certain

• People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • People
  • Helping
  • Achieve

• 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.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Science
  • Facts
  • Break

• This is a thing I read by a scientist... it said scientists now say that a man thinks about sex once every 7.3 seconds. Now, I know what I think every 7.3 seconds. It's just a bunch of meaningless gibberish.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Sex
  • Scientist
  • Thinks

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

  

  Miguel de Icaza
  • People
  • Scientist
  • These

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

  

  Wilbur Wright
  • Fact
  • Machines
  • Studies

• The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the ultimate becomes ridiculous. Time and space are excellent examples of this.

  

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Ridiculous

• Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

  

  Harry Essex
  • Confidence
  • Vision
  • Scientist

• I have 'The Economist' and the 'New Scientist' on my bedside table - and 'GQ,' of course.

  

  Ethan Peck
  • Scientist
  • Economist

• In the 1980s a small group of individuals became concerned about the Earth's temperature and what it might do in the future. I hesitate to call them scientists because they have abandoned their scientific principals by which their guess about temperature increases and the cause could achieve scientific acceptance or rejection.

  

  Walter Cunningham
  • Individual
  • Causes
  • Acceptance

• Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.

  

  William Daniel Phillips
  • Christian
  • Religious
  • Atheism

• We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search for truth provides to scholars of many tongues and many heritages. In the long run, that spirit will inevitably have a constructive effect on the benefits which man can derive from knowledge of himself and his environment.

  

  Stanford Moore
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Environment

• Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Different
  • Artist
  • Unique

• I happen to be a scientist. My background is in nuclear physics. I was a nuclear engineer. But I don't see any incompatibility at all with my religious faith and God the creator of everything and the incompatibility between when the earth was created as specified in the Bible. I don't see any incompatibility there because those that were interpreting God's overall message didn't know anything about modern-day science.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • God
  • Scientist
  • Nuclear physics

• We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!

  

  Nina Hagen
  • Democracy
  • Able
  • International

• There is no need for the scientist to go into whether an observation was made, nor into the who, what, when, or where. The data on which scientific theorizing is based are rather the propositional contents of the instrument readings recorded, or the facts detected thereby.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Scientist
  • Observation
  • Recorded

• When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Jobs
  • Students
  • Physics

• The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Training
  • Computer
  • Ethics

• Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be done." What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Truth
  • Religion
  • Sense

• And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them.

  

  Alan Sokal
  • Discover
  • Scientist
  • Truths

• The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we are always ready to improve our knowledge. Therefore a good scientist is never ‘certain’. Lack of certainty is precisely what makes conclusions more reliable than the conclusions of those who are certain: because the good scientist will be ready to shift to a different point of view if better elements of evidence, or novel arguments emerge. Therefore certainty is not only something of no use, but is in fact damaging, if we value reliability.

  

  Carlo Rovelli
  • Different
  • Novel
  • Argument

• I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea we would put Americans' economy in jeopardy based on scientific theory that is not settled yet to me is nonsense. Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said this is the fact... Galileo got outvoted for a spell. To put Americans' economic future in jeopardy, asking us to cut back in areas that would have monstrous economic impact on this country is not good economics and I would suggest is not necessarily good science.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Country
  • Crazy
  • Cutting

• Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Technology
  • Scientist

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