Scientist Quotes - Page 39

• prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand.

  Margaret Halsey

  Hands, Giving, Disease

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• They have poisoned the Thames and killed the fish in the river. A little further development of the same wisdom and science will complete the poisoning of the air, and kill the dwellers on the banks. I almost think it is the destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Science, Destiny, Thinking

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• Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Issues, Logic

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.339, Modern Library

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• If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Voice, Giving

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• I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.

  Colin Powell

  Science, Degrees, Fields

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• Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis.

  Frederick Lenz

  Civilization, Long, Age

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• There were many stages to the Atlantean civilization. During the later stages, scientists became involved with advanced particle physics. In particular they were interested in reverse gravity fields.

  Frederick Lenz

  Civilization, Atlantis, Fields

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• Let's put research into the hands of legitimate scientists, not pot profiteers.

  Kevin Sabet

  Hands, Research, Pot

  "U.S. Anti-Legalization Group Urges More Access To Marijuana Research", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2015.

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• art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

  Dore Ashton

  Art, May, Phenomenon

  Dore Ashton (1976). “A Critical Study of Philip Guston”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable curiosity, and, above all, the pleasure of masterly performance and of the chase. These are the effective forces which move the scientist. The first condition for the progress of science is to bring them into play.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Moving, Science, Play

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• About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting 'Heureka!', plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on. One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings.

  Lucio Russo

  Writing, Water, Naked

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and excitement when the insight comes, and is endlessly attracted to working out the idea.

  Vivian Gornick

  Science, Ideas, Work Out

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.30, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind. They are the way the world is taken in; all that is seen is filtered through an everpresent scientific musing.

  Vivian Gornick

  Taken, Reading, Science

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.29, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations in the physical world rather than the psychological one.

  Vivian Gornick

  Ongoing, World, Psychological

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.28, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The truth is that once you get down on the trading floor, you find that the traders come from all walks of life. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to be a trader. In fact, some of the best traders whom I knew down on the floor were surf bums. Formal education didn't really seem to have much to do with a person's skill as a trader.

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Skills, Rockets, Facts

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• One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Vocation, Company, Pursue

  "$800 million biotech business started in a garage" by Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Some scientists want to replace the handshake with the fist bump. Others want to replace the fist bump with the 'tush push.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Bumps, Fists, Want

  Twitter post from Sep 09, 2014

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• Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive.

  Matt Ruff

  Numbers, Mad, Alive

  Matt Ruff (2012). “Fool on the Hill: A Novel”, p.210, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One of the skills of a journalist, though, is to find people who can teach him what he needs to know. So instead of taking courses, I've been very lucky in that I found teachers - scientists, especially - who were willing to teach me what I needed to know, whether it was about genetically modified crops or how photosynthesis works, and so on. I just find my teachers and don't have to pay for my education.

  Michael Pollan

  Teacher, Skills, People

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• I think that an anthill is better than a nest ... that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million you are freer than in a nest, where all sit around and look at one another, waiting until scientists finally discover ways to make us mind readers. ... the psychology of the nest is loathsome to me, and I always sympathize with one who flees his nest, even if he flees into an anthill, where it may be crowded but one can find solitude - that most natural, most worthy state of man, that precious and intense state of being conscious of the world and of oneself.

  Nina Berberova

  Thinking, Men, Waiting

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• a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

  Anne Roe

  Science, Asking, Answers

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• Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televisions and computer screens, which transmit ever-more-heated rhetoric from politicians, pundits, and other public figures who misinterpret, misrepresent, and malign scientific results.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Research, Television, Computer

  "Science and Democracy" by Lewis M. Branscomb and Andrew A. Rosenberg, The Scientist, www.the-scientist.com. October 1, 2012.

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• scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.

  Natalie Angier

  Science, Data

  Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Scientists have a second brain where other people have their hearts.

  Martha Albrand

  Heart, Science, People

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• If scientists don't play God, who will?

  James D. Watson

  Play, Ifs

  "Generosity by Richard Powers" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2010.

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