Scientist Quotes

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

Great, Character, Wrong

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
Ray Bradbury

Best, Experience, Idea

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
Ray Bradbury

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

Good, Design, Person

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
H. P. Lovecraft

Truth, Joy, Depressing

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

Him, Child, Though

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.
Ellen DeGeneres

Faith, School, Sunday

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.
Richard Dawkins

Decision, Less, Bit

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

Good, Morning, Pet

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

Nature, Through, Trying

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.
Ellen DeGeneres

God, Power, Mom

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.
Dean Kamen

Thinking, Stars, Engineer

From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.
Deepak Chopra

Human, Everything, Brain

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard P. Feynman

Problems, Looking, Next

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

Life, Live, Trying

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke

Impossible, Wrong, Possible

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Rather, Scientists

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
Marshall McLuhan

Everything, Almost, Ignorant

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.
Paula Cole

Life, Music, Question

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.
Alan Shepard

Life, Good, Whatever

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

Writer, Poet, Precision

I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant.
Susan Orlean

Trying, Thought, After

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
Freeman Dyson

Good, Important, Journalist

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
Jacob Bronowski

Good, Doubt, Him

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?
Jacques Derrida

Why, Expected, Easier

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Henri Poincare

Nature, Beautiful, Study

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Work, Real, Him

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
James Lovelock

Religion, God, Certainty

One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.
James Lovelock

Time, Hope, Truth

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.
James Lovelock

Faith, Trust, Religion

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