Scientist Quotes - Page 18

• Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Eight, Years, Charlatans

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, Chapter 16, 1963.

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• Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion, we all have different jobs. Some of us are artists, some of us are business people, some of us are scientists. But in the real world that lies beyond all this, we all have the same job: to minister to human hearts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jobs, Real, Lying

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Jobs, Mistake

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• I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Needs, Waste, Computer

  "Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering". www.cs.utexas.edu. November 28, 2000.

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• I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying it, but we really hope the conservation message rubs off in our film. Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

  Steve Irwin

  Country, Optimistic, Environmental

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

  James Randi

  Believe, Agreement, Would Be

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• Now is not the time to repudiate environmental balance, but rather it is the time for all of us to work together - politician, advocate, rancher, scientist, and citizen. Only by doing this will the United States move forward and be a leader in environmental issues and ensure sustainability to our delicate ecosystem.

  Robert Redford

  Moving, Ecosystems, Issues

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• Scientists are coming to recognise the effects of the mind on physical health. The sense of relaxation associated with inner peace involves not only being physically at ease. If you are nagged by worry or seething with anger, you’re not really relaxed. The key to relaxation is peace of mind. The relaxation gained from alcohol, drugs or just listening to music may seem attractive, but it doesn’t last.

  Dalai Lama

  Keys, Worry, Alcohol

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• The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

  Winston Churchill

  Science, Age, Stones

  1942 Speech, 26 Mar, in devastated war-time London.

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• We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers

  Tupac Shakur

  Basketball, Football, Mother

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• I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity.

  Jennifer Garner

  Girl, Jobs, Math

  "The Amazing Things Jennifer Garner Wants Her Daughters to Learn" by Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Like anyone else, I too have the potential for violence; I too have anger in me. However, I try to recall that anger is a destructive emotion. I remind myself that scientists now say that anger is bad for our health; it eats into our immune system. So, anger destroys our peace of mind and our physical health. We shouldn’t welcome it or think of it as natural or as a friend.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Mind, Trying

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• You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. We understand there are bigger problems we need to solve as a species than what God you pray to.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Army, Battle, Needs

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• My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be a devotional practice, it may be song or poetry, it may be by gardening, it may be as an activist, scientist, or community leader. The path to restoration extends from our heart to the heart of sentient beings, and that path will be different for every person.

  Paul Hawken

  Song, Heart, Practice

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• The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

  E. O. Wilson

  Thinking, Poet, Ideals

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.90, Vintage

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• Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

  Peter Medawar

  Knowledge, Science, Past

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• Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

  Nate Silver

  Data, Data Science, Statistician

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• Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Data, Doe, Cool Things

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• If it were true that Christianity and science were incompatible, there would be no Christians who were respected scientists. If fact, about forty percent of professional natural scientists are practicing Christians, and many others are theists of other kinds. Fewer than thirty percent are atheists.

  Jeffrey Burton Russell

  Christian, Atheist, Atheism

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• A Chinese paleontologist lectures around the world saying that recent fossil finds in his country are inconsistent with the Darwinian theory of evolution. His reason: The major animal groups appear abruptly in the rocks over a relatively short time, rather than evolving gradually from a common ancestor as Darwin's theory predicts. When this conclusion upsets American scientists, he wryly comments: "In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin."

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Country, Animal, Theory Of Evolution

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• Like many other moms out there, I try to buy safe products for my family, but that can't be the only solution. You can't hire a team of scientists to do your shopping for you. At some point the government has to step in and ensure that chemicals are safe before our children are exposed to them.

  Jessica Alba

  Mom, Children, Team

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• In 1992, one of my dearest friends, Anita Borg, came to me with an idea: a conference featuring women Computer Scientists. The conference would celebrate their contributions to the field and to the world.

  Telle Whitney

  Ideas, World, Fields

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• A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Artist, Men, Creative

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• I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these as creative activities, as all part of the process of discovery. Perhaps that's one of the characteristics of what I call the evolvers, any subset of the population who keep things moving in a positive, creative, constructive way, revealing the truth and beauty that exists in life and in nature.

  Jonas Salk

  Moving, Artist, Discovery

  Academy of Achievement interview, May 16, 1991.

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• Both scientists and sages have told us what we already know to be true in our hearts: everything is connected. Therefore as we change, the world cannot help but change with us.

  Marie Forleo

  Heart, Sage, World

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