Scientist Quotes

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.

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

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

I was going to be a scientist.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

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

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

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

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.

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

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

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

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

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.

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

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

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.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

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.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

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

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.