Top 1200 Great Scientist Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

This is the most important joke I've ever heard. Niels Bohr, the founder of Quantum Physics, had a friend to dinner. As the friend left, he noticed a horseshoe nailed above Bohr's front door. He said to Bohr, accusingly, "Niels, you're a great scientist. You can't believe in superstitions." Bohr answered, "I don't, but apparently it works anyway."As with confirmation bias, we tend to lean toward superstitions that benefit us.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

Scientist alone is true poet.

I love to be a scientist. I've always enjoyed being curious.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

I am a scientist. I go where the facts take me.

When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.

There are worse sins for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivial

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.

A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was.

To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses.

I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development is great. The plotting is great. The pacing is great. The language is great.

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

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

I do love science. My father is a scientist.

Any kind of person can be a scientist.

I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.

From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent agent in the supplying of man's commercial and industrial needs... The electronic amplifier tube now underlies the whole art of communications, and this in turn is at least in part what has made possible its application to a dozen other arts. It was a great day for both science and industry when they became wedded through the development of the electronic amplifier tube.

'Data scientist,' as a profession, is largely a fad.

To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.

The job of the data scientist is to ask the right questions.

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

Recognition by one's peers is the goal of every scientist.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

A scientist is just a kid who never grew up.

My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist.

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

I'm a skeptic. I'm not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized.

There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still more satisfactory, still more emotionally exciting discovery that the theory is not quite right and has to be worked over again, very much as any other work of art-a painting, a sculpture has to be worked over in the interests of aesthetic perfection. So there is no scientist who is not to some extent worthy of being described as artist or poet.

To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.

My background is as a computer scientist and programmer.

Scientist believe in things, not in person

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

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.

I'm not a scientist either, but I can use my brain, and I can talk to one.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.

The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.

A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our environment, there will be no fracking.