Quotes of Scientist - somelinesforyou

“ If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips. ”

- Penelope Fitzgerald

“ I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. ”

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

“ It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. ”

- Konrad Lorenz

“ It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. ”

- Michael Crichton

“ A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. ”

- Freeman Dyson

“ Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. ”

- David Cronenberg

“ If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be. ”

- Evelyn Waugh

“ Isn't it marvelous how those scientists know the names of all those stars? ”

- Unknown

“ 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. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them. ”

- Mark Twain

“ There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment. ”

- P. D. James

“ There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities. ”

- E. J. Hobsbawm

“ Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. ”

- Amelia E. Barr

“ When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. ”

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

“ Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. ”

- Plato

“ A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. ”

- Marie Curie

“ This has been one of the most difficult transitions, getting scientists to understand accountability in the short term. ”

- Robert Miller

“ So hackers start original, and get good, and scientists start good, and get original. ”

- Paul Graham

“ It was written by a lunatic,... It's a quirky movie that you won't see on an airplane. ”

- Bruce Campbell

“ I seem to have been like a child playing on the seashore, finding new and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. ”

- Isaac Newton

“ In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. ”

- P. L. Berger

“ Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking. ”

- Keith Floyd

“ Science has "explained" nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Science is a game we play with God, to find out what his rules are. ”

- Cornelius Krasel
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