Scientist Quotes - Page 25

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  If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.

  James Lee Burke

  Giving, Cracks, Rockets

  Interview with April Henry, www.aprilhenrymysteries.com. 1999.

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• The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

  Johnny Ball

  Government, Quality, Add

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• One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Talking, Important

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• 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

  Pride, Army, College

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• To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

  Arthur Compton

  Teacher, Religious, Civilization

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• I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

  Thomas Cech

  Thinking, Leader, Research

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". Interview with Holger Breithaupt, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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• 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

  Thinking, Ideas, Political

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• The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Groups, Approach, Various

  Kenichi Fukui (1997). “Frontier Orbitals and Reaction Paths: Selected Papers of Kenichi Fukui”, p.151, World Scientific

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• I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.

  Gordon Gee

  Cancer, Cells, Lenses

  "The Research University: Too Vital to Fail" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

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• So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.

  Peter Agre

  Thinking, Advice, Young

  "Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk". "Science Talk" with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. July 20, 2011.

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• I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

  David Eagleman

  Impulse Control, Labs, Study

  "The Possibilian" by Burkhard Bilger, www.newyorker.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell.

  Eliot Engel

  Unique, Opportunity, Cells

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• Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

  Larry Wall

  Creativity, Thinking, Trying

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• The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Confused, Challenges, Programming

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• The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

  Alexis Carrel

  Science, Technology, Average

  Man the Unknown Chapter 2, 4 (p. 49)

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• There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

  Ray Davies

  Religious, Heaven, Religion

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• My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

  Jim Fowler

  Father, Soil, Surveys

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• I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Government, Overcoming, Position

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• So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.

  Uri Geller

  Book, Writing, Government

  www.urigeller.com.

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• 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

  Moving, Views, Community

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• 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.

  Steven Hatfill

  Warfare, Defense, Way

  "Text of Hatfill's Statement", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

  Miguel de Icaza

  People, Use, Latex

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• The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Important, History Of Life, Roles

  Phillip E. Johnson (2000). “Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture”, Intervarsity Press

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• The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

  John Maeda

  Mets

  "John Maeda: Innovation is born when art meets science". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

  Kary Mullis

  Names, Mind, World

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