Scientist Quotes - Page 27

• I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

  Steve Squyres

  Remember, I Can

  "Person of the Week: Steven Squyres". ABC News, abcnews.go.com. January 09, 2004.

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• In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that's not quite me. What's me is to do it in novels.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Theoretical Physics, Frustrated, Way

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• I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

  E. P. Thompson

  Thinking, Groups, Germany

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• As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Book, Kids, Writing

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• I've got a new studio set up very much based around live mixing and also mixing analogue and digital systems. Inspired by the late King Tubby and Scientist.

  Subb-an

  Kings, Mixing, Digital

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• More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Politician, Should

  "The Science of Second-Guessing". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 2004.

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• A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a person.

  Halford Luccock

  Christmas, Ideas, Way

  "Whoops! It's Christmas". "The Abbott Christmas Book". Book edited by Herbert W. Luthin, 1960.

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• Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ignorance, Science, Thinking

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• We all have choices. We can build walls or we can build bridges. We can give our talents to creating weapons of annihilation, as so many scientists have done, or we can work to find solutions to humanities greatest problems. Our orientation is found not only in our acts, but also in the policies we support or oppose.

  David Krieger

  Wall, Bridges, Creating

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• I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one side of nature (physics) without considering the other side (life in consciousness). Neither side exists without the other. They cannot be divorced from one another or else there is no reality.

  Robert Lanza

  Reality, Thinking, Space

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• From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Interesting, Childhood, Understanding

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• Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.

  Charles C. Mann

  Dna, Numbers, Links

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• Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.

  James Murdoch

  Communication, People, Choices

  "This much I know". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.

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• Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

  Ed Markey

  School, Technology, Engineering

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• My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

  Eva Zeisel

  Party, Artist, People

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• People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

  Nalini Nadkarni

  Stars, People, Perspective

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• The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Artist, Promise, Drs

  Quoted in Vintage Muggeridge, ed. Geoffrey Barlow (1985)

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• We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.

  Dick Cheney

  Impact, Events, Nuclear

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• It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.

  Jules Verne

  Done, Earth, Logic

  Jules Verne, William Butcher (2005). “The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras”, p.82, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.

  Dean Ornish

  Cards, Answers, Medical

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• Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'

  David Satcher

  America, Community, Challenges

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• I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

  James D. Watson

  Wish, Would Be

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• It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, Issues, Imagination

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.187, Oxford University Press

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• And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

  Tycho Brahe

  Worry, Too Much, Should

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• I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

  Francis Collins

  School, Physicians, Becoming

  "Faith & Reason" TV Program Interview, www.pbs.org.

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