Scientists Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Scientists.
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“In contrast to composers, there are few scientists whose last works are their greatest.”
“Wikipedia: Scientists”
“The Thinker said, “There will come a new scientist, bold and unlimited.” (934)”
“A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.”
“The creative scientist lives in a 'wildness of logic,' where reason is the handmaiden and not the master.”
“Scientists, animated by the purpose of proving they are purposeless, constitute an interesting subject for study.”
“Some 500,000 scientists all over the world are devoting their knowledge to the search for weaponry more sophisticated and more deadly.”
“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious person looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.”
“So many people today — and even professional scientists — seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest.”
“Perhaps it is my job to offend some scientists. I'm not asking them to be reckless or unprofessional, but I do want to reinforce a sense of urgency.”
“I've been aware for some time of the shortcomings inherent in the sane, dispassionate thinking that we scientists advocate. People don’t pay any attention.”
“Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.”
“A scientist worthy of the name, above all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.”
“We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it.”
“As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.”
“A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.”
“Many people, including many important and well-respected scientists, just don’t want there to be anything beyond nature. They don’t want a supernatural being to affect nature.”
“It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.”