Top 1200 Mad Scientist Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

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.

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.

I'm actually a NASA brat. My father was a rocket scientist. He started working at NASA before it was NASA in 1959.

I was completely crazy and mad when I was young. I was absolutely in love with the dissolute.

A data scientist is that unique blend of skills that can both unlock the insights of data and tell a fantastic story via the data.

As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.

Oh, goodie! I get to make the redheaded goddess mad! (Simi)

Hollywood has realised that we do have actors and are not just mad about song and dance.

It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.

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.

When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

If you can handle the fact that people are going to be mad at you when you do what you think is right, you'll be alright.

My wife gets so mad at me because I don't like to cook on the grill.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer, you know, she didn't even get paid to be a scientist. And yet, she was doing Nobel Prize-winning work. How ridiculous is that?

I used to have really long hair. It was a big fro with mad curls.

A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

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.

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'

... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize and use reality in all its individuality and peculiarity.

Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.

For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened.

Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.

The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone.

Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.

It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH.

Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind. They are the way the world is taken in; all that is seen is filtered through an everpresent scientific musing.

As a young boy, I was very interested - as I still am - in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I thought about being an astronaut, a dinosaur scientist, or marine biologist, but I clearly was drawn to the ocean and to the water.

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

I'm an Apple-mad person. The iPad is now such a big part of my life.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

I always liked the 'Mad Men' philosophy where people don't really change.

One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

Establishment women just get mad. Activists change the laws.

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

I'm still mad at Josh Charles for dying on 'The Good Wife.'

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

To be with another scientist and make a discovery and share that with a global audience, or working with bear biologists in Alaska, by helicopter - [it's] really what I've given my whole life to. And I get to do that just about every week.

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.

To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

Perhaps the Mad Hatter had a reason for calling time Him.

The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.

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.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!

In 2009, 2010, the Obama people were the ones mad at me.

Having been trained as a computer scientist in the '90s, everybody knew that AI didn't work. People tried it. They tried neural nets, and none of it worked.

My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.