Best Scientist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.”

Years Wanted Five Discipline Scientist I Realized Narrative Five Years Neuroscience Labs Undergraduate

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.”

Writing Paper Scientist Physicians Papers

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.”

May Self Matter Facts Helping Past Progress Materials Scientist Significant Devoted Evident Odds And Ends

Author:Ernest Lawrence

“Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.”

Thinking Stills Results Scientist Tables Philosopher Proven Scientific Knowledge

Book:The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers

Source: The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers

“Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.”

Winning Pleasure Mankind Benefits Scientist Fellows Recognition Endeavor

Author:Irving Langmuir

“Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.”

Has Beens Character Scientist Prejudice International Disappear Search For Truth Disappear Completely

Author:Irving Langmuir

“The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.”

Men Long Past Highest Scientist Fellows Rewards Debt Prize Solemn Nobel Nobel Prize

Author:Edward Mills Purcell

“Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.”

Body Members Authority Standing Scientist Profession Distinguished Juniors

Author:Michael Polanyi

“Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.”

Men Doe Whole Body Young Process Members Authority Scientist Lays Profession Young Man

Author:Michael Polanyi

“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.”

Way Body Certain Community Principles Economic Materials Scientist Productions Titles Features Organized Goods

Author:Michael Polanyi

“The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.”

Firsts Facts Problem Light Choices Clear Members Judgment Organization Scientist

Book:The Republic of Science, Its Political and Economic Theory: A Lecture Delivered at Roosevelt University, January 11, 1962

Source: The Republic of Science, Its Political and Economic Theory: A Lecture Delivered at Roosevelt University, January 11, 1962

“I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.”

Facts Used Share Planets Theory Prove Scientist Climate Various Deeper Smell Conclusion Data Shocked Summary Graphs

Author:Burt Rutan

“For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.”

Feels Kind Fun Interesting Stones Scientist Puzzled

Author:Mary Roach

“Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.”

Used Scientist Delight Farmers Interaction Chef Flavour Diners

Author:Rene Redzepi

“In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.”

Groups Weapons Research Tasks Scientist Nuclear Physics Nuclear Weapons Thesis Nuclear Physics

Author:Andrei Sakharov

“Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.”

Problem Solutions Scientist Structure Follow Up Atomic Structure

Author:Johannes Stark

“Virtually every scientist now concedes that universe and time itself had beginning. So, whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe must have had a cause.”

Universe Causes Scientist

Author:Lee Strobel

“Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists may call on us to, well, you know, do it like crazy for the sake of humankind.”

Ifs Knows Love Wells May Earth Crazy Destruction Scientist Sake Guarantees Humankind Our Love Orbit Meteors

Author:Dalai Lama

“As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.”

Trying Scientist Math Physics Undergraduate

Author:Nicholas Stern

“I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.”

I Can Remember Scientist

Author:Steve Squyres

“In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that's not quite me. What's me is to do it in novels.”

Knows Way Bigs Novel Amount Scientist University Physics Frustrated Mathematician Theoretical Big Questions Theoretical Physics

Author:Scarlett Thomas

“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.”

Thinking World Moments Groups Like You Politician Scientist Western British Germany Britain Ruling Western World

Author:E. P. Thompson

“As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.”

Writing Book Kids Wanted Fiction Novel Scientist Science Fiction

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“I've got a new studio set up very much based around live mixing and also mixing analogue and digital systems. Inspired by the late King Tubby and Scientist.”

Kings Late Scientist Inspired Studios Digital Mixing Analogue

Author:Subb-an

“More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.”

Should Science Politician Scientist

Author:Stephen Hawking

“A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a person.”

Way Persons Said Ideas Happened Divine Scientist Best Way Christmas Divine Love Wraps Christmas Day Christmas Love Christmas Magic Holiday Traditions Religious Christmas Meaning Of Christmas

Author:Halford Luccock

“Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!”

“We all have choices. We can build walls or we can build bridges. We can give our talents to creating weapons of annihilation, as so many scientists have done, or we can work to find solutions to humanities greatest problems. Our orientation is found not only in our acts, but also in the policies we support or oppose.”

“I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one side of nature (physics) without considering the other side (life in consciousness). Neither side exists without the other. They cannot be divorced from one another or else there is no reality.”

Thinking Has Beens Hard Reality Courses Sides Space Answers Consciousness Objects Building Scientist Physics Considering Time And Space Divorced

Author:Robert Lanza

“From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.”

Ifs Knows World Kind Would Be Understanding Interesting Childhood Scientist Relevant Outside World Inner World Chemist Early Childhood

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.”

Helping Numbers Cases Particular Huge Tomorrow Disease Scientist Majority Patient Cures Treatment Links Dna Huge Numbers

Author:Charles C. Mann

“Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.”

People Needs Choices Policy Communication Scientist Fundamentals Addresses Literacy Communicators Science Literacy

Author:James Murdoch

“Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.”

School America Technology Economy Comfort Standards Scientist Safety Miles Compromise Fuel Vehicle Engineering Gallons Mit Fuel Economy

Author:Ed Markey

“My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.”

People Artist Party Hundred Scientist My Time Elegant Berlin

Author:Eva Zeisel

“People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.”

People Stars Common Share Perspective Scientist Movie Star Common Denominator

Author:Nalini Nadkarni

“The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw.”

Wells Life Is Artist Promise Eternal Scientist Saint Philosopher Drs Testament Johnson Eternal Life New Testament Blake Milton Augustine Hippo Huxley Bernard Shaw Dr Johnson

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.”

Ifs Way Helping Term Chance Deals Events Havens Type Weapons Lows Percent Scientist Treats Impact Threat Response Nuclear Defined Certainty Als Nuclear Weapons Probability Al Qaeda

Author:Dick Cheney

“It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.”

Sometimes Reason Done Earth Logic Scientist

Book:The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

Source: The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

“I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.”

Knows Answers Accepting Approach Scientist Medical Cards Quackery

Author:Dean Ornish

“Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'”

America Community Challenges Scientist Patient Harm Physicians Outstanding Pledge

Author:David Satcher

“I wish there would be more movies about scientists.”

Would Be Wish Scientist

Author:James D. Watson

“It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.”

Source: The Sociological Imagination

“And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.”

Should Worry Too Much Scientist Possession Statesmen Fatherland

Author:Tycho Brahe

“I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.”

School Becoming Scientist Medical Biology Physicians Chemist Medical School

Author:Francis Collins

“A lot of scientists on Earth think of things that they could do in zero g. Things like the way metals cure, for example, and the way fluids react in space can tell us a lot about some of the unknowns we have on Earth.”

Thinking Way Earth Space Example Scientist Cures Zero Metals Fluid

Author:Kevin A. Ford

“If you Google some sites about the link between vaccines and autism, you can very quickly find that Google is repeating back to you your view about whether that link exists and not what scientists know, which is that there isn't a link between vaccines and autism. It's a feedback loop that's invisible.”

Ifs Knows Views Scientist Invisible Links Autism Google Site Feedback Vaccines Loops

Author:Eli Pariser

“Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible, and scientists quote other scientists. How do either scientists or theologians answer this question about the accuracy of their conclusions: “In reference to what?”

Kind Answers Offers Argument Scientist Believer Conclusion Theologian Accuracy

Author:Frank Schaeffer

“I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.”

I Can Scientist

Author:James Hansen

“I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have any desire to go and be a scientist. Louis Leakey channeled me there. I'm delighted he did. I love science. I love analyzing and making sense of all these observations. So, it was the perfect rounding off of who I was into who I am.”

Wells Wanted Desire Perfect Poet Scientist Who I Am Observation Make Sense Delighted Analyzing Naturalist Science Love

Author:Jane Goodall

“Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.”

Ifs Way Hard Taught Cold Approach Scientist Attractive Intuitive

Author:Jane Goodall

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