Scientist Quotes - Page 26

• At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the whole.

  Betty Shine

  Healing, Health, Perfect

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• Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy

  Song: Do Right to Me Baby, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

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• We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We need entrepreneurs to sell those technologies. We need workers to operate assembly lines that hum with high-tech, zero-carbon components. We need builders to hammer into place the foundations for a clean energy age. We need diplomats and businessmen and women, and Peace Corps volunteers to help developing nations skip past the dirty phase of development and transition to sustainable sources of energy. In other words, we need you.

  Barack Obama

  Zero, Dirty, Past

  Barack Obama's remarks at University of California-Irvine Commencement Ceremony at the Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 14, 2014.

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• The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

  Bette Midler

  Names, Foundation, Opera

  Song: Otto Titsling, Album: Mud Will Be Flung Tonight!

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• Startups allow technologists and scientists to take risks and change plans in a way that would be frowned upon in a big company. Having said that, big companies will play a key role in certain areas and in partnerships with little companies. Each has its strengths.

  Vinod Khosla

  Keys, Play, Risk

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

  Bruno Latour

  Other Cultures, Practice, Pristine

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• I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Years, Discipline, Labs

  "Jonah Lehrer: We can all be as creative as Picasso... we just have to learn how". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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• I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Writing, Physicians, Paper

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• The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Past, Self, Progress

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• Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

  Imre Lakatos

  Thinking, Tables, Philosopher

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

  Irving Langmuir

  Winning, Benefits, Recognition

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

  Irving Langmuir

  Character, Disappear Completely, Prejudice

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• The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

  Edward Mills Purcell

  Past, Men, Long

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• Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

  Michael Polanyi

  Body, Juniors, Authority

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• Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.

  Michael Polanyi

  Men, Body, Doe

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• My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.

  Michael Polanyi

  Community, Body, Way

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• The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.

  Michael Polanyi

  Light, Organization, Choices

  Michael Polanyi (1962). “The Republic of Science, Its Political and Economic Theory: A Lecture Delivered at Roosevelt University, January 11, 1962”

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• I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.

  Burt Rutan

  Data, Smell, Climate

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• For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.

  Mary Roach

  Fun, Interesting, Stones

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• Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

  Rene Redzepi

  Delight, Diners, Chef

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Groups, Tasks, Nuclear

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• Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.

  Johannes Stark

  Problem, Structure, Follow Up

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• Virtually every scientist now concedes that universe and time itself had beginning. So, whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe must have had a cause.

  Lee Strobel

  Causes, Universe

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• Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists may call on us to, well, you know, do it like crazy for the sake of humankind.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Crazy, Orbit

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• As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

  Nicholas Stern

  Math, Trying, Physics

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