Scientists Quotes

• We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Poets
  • Scientists
  • Pantheists

• I feel we must all exert ourselves to the utmost to see that the ideals and hopes held by Alfred Nobel, whom we commemorate today, do not fail from lack of purpose on the part of scientists.

  

  Howard Florey
  • Scientists
  • Ideals
  • Nobel

• I believe in truths, but I don't believe in the Truth. Furthermore, I think that vision of an underlying Truth, with as capital T, that scientists are privy to, has been a very counterproductive vision. It has served scientists very well, but what it has done, above all, is encloses the world of science and immunize it from criticism.

  

  Evelyn Fox Keller
  • Truth
  • Criticism
  • I Believe In

• One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Purpose
  • Explanation
  • Concepts

• Color does to me what the touch of the earth did to the giant Antaeus - sends new life, vitality, courage, initiative surging through me. Sometime the scientists will discover that color is a renewer of life.

  

  Emilie Loring
  • Life
  • Color
  • Discover

• Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps slept in their nests.

  

  Ziya Tong
  • Scientists
  • Nests
  • Lice

• Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Faith
  • Church
  • Universe

• My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Stuff
  • Scientists
  • Nonviolence

• I am convinced, based on more than three decades of studying NRMs through participant-observation and through interviews with both members and ex-members, that these movements have unleashed social and psychological forces of truly awesome power. These forces have wreaked havoc in many lives - in both adults and in children. It is these social and psychological influence processes that the social scientist has both the right and the duty to try to understand, regardless of whether such understanding will ultimately prove helpful or harmful to the cause of religious liberty. … the real sociological issue ought not to be whether brainwashing ever occurs but rather whether it occurs frequently enough to be considered an important social problem.

  

  Benjamin Zablocki
  • Problem
  • Liberty
  • Interviews

• Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.

  

  Adam Frank
  • Artists
  • Cultural
  • Milieu

• The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Ability
  • Politicians
  • Failures

• They’re not fat pigs; we’re mad scientists.

  

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
  • Mad
  • Not
  • Pigs

• Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Blind
  • Errors
  • Fascinates

• Scientists define these terms in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

  

  Anthony Standen
  • Understand
  • Scientists
  • Terms

• On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time that the idea of the scientists' petition against nuclear weapons tests was born. That evening we discussed it at length after dinner at my house and various ones of those present were scribbling and suggesting paragraphs. But it was Linus Pauling himself who contributed the simple prose of the petition that was much superior to any of the suggestions we were making.

  

  Edward Condon
  • Students
  • Dinner
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I would love to see music reinstated as an essential part of schooling. The culture that it brings; the knowledge that it brings. Just learning how to read music requires metrics, and I think that helps you with mathematics. A lot of scientists and doctors have a musical background - it's very interesting.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Knowledge

• Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

  

  David Mermin
  • Expression
  • Conventions
  • Entirely

• The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we'll fall behind the rest of the world.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Research
  • Students
  • Priority

• A group of scientists led by Bärbel Hönisch, of Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, recently reviewed the evidence for changing CO2 levels in the geologic past and concluded that, although there are several severe episodes of ocean acidification in the record, “no past event perfectly parallels” what is happening right now, owing to “the unprecedented rapidity of CO2 release currently taking place.” It turns out there just aren’t many ways to inject billions of tons of carbon into the air very quickly.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Ocean
  • Record
  • Changing

• If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

  

  Evelyn Waugh
  • Politicians
  • Scientists
  • Happier

• Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists.

  

  Michael Nielsen
  • Most
  • Despite
  • Systematic

• To be in contact with scientists, to become in a small way a scientist myself if possible, perhaps to cast new light on physical phenomena, to be able to uncover what is real and definitive, was my life's great dream.

  

  Ernest Solvay
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Scientists

• Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.

  

  Barbara Fredrickson
  • Learning
  • Scientists
  • Exploration

• Many think of the sciences as merely a fund of knowledge. Journalists never ask scientists anything other than what the applications are of scientific breakthroughs. Interestingly, I doubt they ever ask a musician, writer, or actor the same question. I wonder why.

  

  Harry Kroto
  • Knowledge
  • Sciences
  • Journalists

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