Scientist Quotes - Page 38

• I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Communication, Thinking, Needs

  “What inspires you?” by Anthony S. Fauci, bigthink.com.

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• Science is not always what scientists do.

  J. Allen Hynek

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• Being a scientist is like being an explorer. You have this immense curiosity, this stubbornness, this resolute will that you will go forward no matter what other people say.

  Sara Seager

  People, Curiosity, Matter

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• Scientists believe that the universe is made of hydrogen because they claim it's the most plentiful ingredient. I claim that the most plentiful ingredient is stupidity.

  Frank Zappa

  Believe, Stupidity, Hydrogen

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• Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Team, Years, Fiction

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• Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

  Grace Llewellyn

  Teaching, Kids, Littles

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• Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

  Anais Nin

  Science, Poet, Unison

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• Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have had no choice but to turn their attention to the close study of everyday objects.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Fun, Party, Science

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.96, Vintage

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• most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control of the situation rather than surrendering himself to the situation, as one must in studying human beings as they actually live.

  Margaret Mead

  Science, People, Study

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• ... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.

  Margaret Mead

  Mirrors, Fishing, Imagination

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.

  Simone Weil

  Science, Mind, Village

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• One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development of their particular science: there is none who is really competent as regards sciences other than his own. As science forms an indivisible whole, one may say that there are no longer, strictly speaking, scientists, but only drudges doing scientific work.

  Simone Weil

  Science, Ideas, Numbers

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.12, Routledge

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• The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Knowledge, Exhilaration, Ancient

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2004). “Exuberance: The Passion for Life”, p.180, Vintage

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• Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

  Shana Alexander

  Evil, Villain, Threatening

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.

  Lewis Thomas

  Cat, Rebuke, Humans

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• Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Men, Understanding, Brain

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• For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of peoples but their decay, not the natural birth of man but his unnatural death.

  Hannah Arendt

  Men, Race, Humanity

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well. Of course, this is just a metaphor for order at the heart of confusion. A rational or aesthetic pattern underlying reality is far from a theistic God.

  Taner Edis

  Writing, Heart, Reality

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• ... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Artist, Creating

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.45, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific point of view. We are convinced that scientists will thus perform a service to mankind, since at the same time they will help determine the measure beyond which its use is a misuse for all creation.

  Pope Pius XII

  Food, Wine, Views

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• The biggest danger we face is overfishing. We literally could fish out our oceans, some scientists believe, in the next 40, 50, 60 years. We are fishing out the top of the food chain, and it's pretty crucial because about 200 million people depend on fish and fishing for their livelihood, and about a billion people, mostly in poorer countries, depend on fish for their protein. So this is a big problem. Good news is, it's fixable.

  Ted Danson

  Country, Believe, Ocean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.

  Bex Taylor-Klaus

  Long, Stuff, Study

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no one.

  Tim Burton

  Kids, Mad, Wanted

  "Frankenweenie - Tim Burton interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known; there were no guidelines for such a field study; and the habitat was remote and rugged. Dangerous wild animals would be living there, and chimpanzees themselves were considered at least four times stronger than humans. I remember wondering what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task.

  Jane Goodall

  Science, Animal, Stronger

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• vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of scientists to vivisection, which is the easy and cheap way, actually prevents them from scientific progress, for true progress is difficult and requires genius and imagination in its devoted workers.

  Brenda Ueland

  Animal, Dedication, Imagination

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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