Scientist Quotes - Page 28

• A lot of scientists on Earth think of things that they could do in zero g. Things like the way metals cure, for example, and the way fluids react in space can tell us a lot about some of the unknowns we have on Earth.

  Kevin A. Ford

  Zero, Thinking, Space

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• If you Google some sites about the link between vaccines and autism, you can very quickly find that Google is repeating back to you your view about whether that link exists and not what scientists know, which is that there isn't a link between vaccines and autism. It's a feedback loop that's invisible.

  Eli Pariser

  Views, Vaccines, Autism

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• Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible, and scientists quote other scientists. How do either scientists or theologians answer this question about the accuracy of their conclusions: “In reference to what?

  Frank Schaeffer

  Answers, Kind, Argument

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• I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

  James Hansen

  I Can

  "Rewriting The Science". "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. March 19, 2006.

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• I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have any desire to go and be a scientist. Louis Leakey channeled me there. I'm delighted he did. I love science. I love analyzing and making sense of all these observations. So, it was the perfect rounding off of who I was into who I am.

  Jane Goodall

  Who I Am, Perfect, Desire

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• Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

  Jane Goodall

  Way, Taught, Cold

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• Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.

  Frank Oppenheimer

  Jobs, Artist, People

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• If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.

  Serge Lang

  Views, Community, Serious

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.266, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

  Serge Lang

  Drug, Firsts, Hypothesis

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.623, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

  Jan de Bont

  Believe, Planets, Mankind

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• One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.

  Michael Flanders

  World, Able, Today

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• The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

  Wellington Mara

  Church, Doe, Teach

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• I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.

  Lennart Nilsson

  Country, Working Together, United States

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• A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

  Walter Reisch

  Accomplished, Prove

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• There's no term to the work of a scientist.

  Walter Reisch

  Term

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• Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls.

  Robert Breault

  Artist, Order, Understanding

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• Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Greatness, Theory

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• I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.

  C.P. Snow

  Ocean, Moving, Science

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• Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

  Kedar Joshi

  Religious, Science, Simple

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• I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

  C.P. Snow

  Science, Should Have, Adequate

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• A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.

  C.P. Snow

  Knowledge, Responsibility, Science

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• A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?

  C.P. Snow

  Science, Law, People

  C.P. SNOW (1963). “THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK”

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• I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.

  C.P. Snow

  Husband, Father, Science

  C.P. Snow (2010). “The Physicists”, p.91, House of Stratus

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• If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Saviour.

  Roy Lessin

  Technology, Needs, Information

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• No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing so. Rutherford was one of the greatest experimental physicists, but no nuclear scientist today would study his researches of fifty years ago. Their substance has all been infused into the common agreement, the textbooks, the contemporary papers, the living present.

  C.P. Snow

  Science, Past, Thinking

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