Scientist Quotes - Page 24

• How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Science, Men, Enemy

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• One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise.

  Thomas Dreier

  Children, Intelligent, Creative

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• Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Fields, Wells, Courses

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• No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and the known, we could know nothing except the wall itself. Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known. That encounter has moments of distance, but it would not be an encounter without moments of intimacy as well. Knowing of any sort is relational, animated by a desire to come into deeper community with what we know.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Wall, Distance, Knowledge

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• If, as the scientist say, sex is such a driving force, why is so much of it nowadays found parked?

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Sex, Humorous

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• A book came out recently written by scientists and environmentalists that made me so angry. It said the only thing we have to worry about is big industry. Each individual who tries to make his or her own environment better is useless. I find this criminal, because then you have a billion people all saying, It doesn't matter what I do because I'm just one person. But if you turn that around and a billion people say, What I do does make a difference, then it will make a difference.

  Jane Goodall

  Women, Book, Differences

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• [Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if we don't give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don't use many.

  Harold Wilson

  Science, Government, Giving

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• [May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that has been rendered to civilization by men and women of the Jewish faith. May [visitors] recall the long array of those who have been eminent in statecraft, in science, in literature, in art, in the professions, in business, in finance, in philanthropy and in the spiritual life of the world.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Art, Science

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• I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the Star Wars program designing weapons ignited by hydrogen bombs. I didn't want to do that. I thought about how many scientists had died in World War II.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, War, Science

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• In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This leads me to confess that I am not as completely unknown to you as you might believe, but that fearing the ridicule attached to a female scientist, I have previously taken the name of M. LeBlanc in communicating to you those notes that, no doubt, do not deserve the indulgence with which you have responded.

  Sophie Germain

  Believe, Taken, Science

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• Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Dumb, Next, Persons

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• If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Science, Gossip, Evidence

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “The Gate of Angels”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Egypt, Long

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.87, Routledge

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• Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth.

  Tim Cahill

  California, Europe, Wind

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• The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

  Barry Commoner

  Army, Command

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.

  Barry Commoner

  War, Vision, Facts

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Scientists are always skeptics.

  Donald A. Norman

  Skeptic

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• The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.

  Hans Selye

  Science, Faculty, Amazement

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• In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?

  Alan Lightman

  Science, Cosmos, World

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.29, Vintage

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• As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.

  Alan Lightman

  Believe, Whether God Exists, Prove It

  "Reviewing Mr g: Physicist-turned-novelist Alan Lightman meets God at the intersection of science and religion". Interview with Greg Quill, www.thestar.com. February 12, 2012.

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• As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.

  Alan Lightman

  Religious, Views, Different

  Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.30, Vintage

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• You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

  Christopher Hampton

  Important, Theory, Being True

  Christopher Hampton (1997). “Plays: Total eclipse [u.a.] - 1. publ”

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• The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

  Olympia Brown

  Science, Simple, Law

  1895 Sermon in Wisconsin, c.13 Jan.

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• I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists - that there's another side to be heard.

  Steven Levitt

  Wisdom, Believe, Reading

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.

  Brian Andreas

  Fire, Needs, Stories

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