Scientists Quotes

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.
Jan de Bont

Amazing, Started, Quite

Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations such as Microsoft and NASA. Our temples are not the god-encrusted shrines of Varanasi, but Western scientific institutions like Caltech and MIT, and magazines like 'Nature' and 'Scientific American.'
Aravind Adiga

Nature, Nothing, Pride

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
John Sladek

Future, Past, Far

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.
Robert Barany

Thoughts, Facts, Stimulates

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
Walter Kaufmann

Job, Weird, Injustice

However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.
James Randi

Difficult, However, Agree

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.
Martin Fleischmann

Fact, Stand, Tree

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
Serge Lang

Early, Among, Hypothesis

I don't think that they have many of the scientists who were involved in the weapons program to talk to at this time, and there were thousands of people, engineers and scientists, they know where the weapons are.
Ahmed Chalabi

Time, Talk, Engineers

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.
Eric Hobsbawm

Group, Social, Activities

And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.
Story Musgrave

Military, Interest, Test

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.
Michael Polanyi

Others, Body, Scientific

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.
Michael Polanyi

Men, Science, Young

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.
Michael Polanyi

Body, Community, Economic

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.
Michael Polanyi

Light, Problems, Fact

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.
Paul Krugman

Science, Political, Friends

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.
Frederik Pohl

Time, May, Enough

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
Walter Gilbert

Science, Move, Community

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.
Kenneth G. Wilson

Government, Able, Efforts

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.
Kim Stanley Robinson

Crazy, Act, Rest

I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?
James Merrill

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.
Ruth Benedict

Today, Study, Learn

And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.
Jane Mayer

Stress, Through, Working

Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.
Paul Berg

Effort, Public, Approach

I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming.
Uberto Crescenti

Against, Natural, Changes

I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.
David Deutsch

Good, Power, Political

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
Wellington Mara

Science, Church, Based

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.
George Stigler

Science, Small, Forever

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.
Robert Barany

Great, Two, Small

The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.
Rosa DeLauro

Science, Here, Moral

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