Scientist Quotes - Page 40

• One thing I can take credit for, along with the rest of show business, is when the red ribbons were out, we cured AIDS. Any advancements that came towards fighting AIDS were not done by scientists or doctors - it was people with little ribbons on their lapels.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Fighting, Doctors, People

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• Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads.

  Bill Maher

  Earthquakes, Building, Coastal

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• A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

  Kim Stanley

  Crazy, Looks, Belief

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• You like to explore things, and your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty, and because it's noisy - but for you it's fun, you're resting. You're actually doing experiments... Just tell your parents that they're experiments, and you want to become a scientist, and then they won't stop you from doing anything you want.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fun, Dirty, Parent

  "Neil Degrasse Tyson Responds To Six-Year-Old – 'How Can First Graders Help The Earth?'". Neil deGrasse Tyson's speech at the NDT lecture at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, lybio.net. November 14, 2014.

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• I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

  Robert Jarvik

  Physicians, Medical, Practicals

  "Jarvik Responds to Lipitor Ad Controversy" by Ryan Owens, Joel Parks, Steve Petyerak, Imaeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. January 16, 2008.

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• Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.

  Michio Kaku

  Math, Flames, Advice

  "String Theory Genius Explains The Coming Breakthroughs That Will Change Life As We Know It". Reddit AMA, www.businessinsider.in. March 10, 2014.

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• Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.

  Subhash Kak

  Betrayal, Self, Careers

  Subhash Kak (1994). “The astronomical code of the Ṛgveda”

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• I wonder how Feynman would feel if he had to be talking to not just a few nuts of this kind but e.g. to 2,500 similar nuts who would be moreover described by the media as good scientists, if not the best ones in the world. ;-) Good for him that he managed to die in time.

  Lubos Motl

  Nuts, Media, Talking

  "Schellnhuber: West has exceeded quotas". motls.blogspot.ru. September 06, 2009.

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• To be in contact with scientists, to become in a small way a scientist myself if possible, perhaps to cast new light on physical phenomena, to be able to uncover what is real and definitive, was my life's great dream.

  Ernest Solvay

  Dream, Real, Men

  "The Solvay Councils and the Birth of Modern Physics" by Pierre Marage, Grégoire Wallenborn, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1999.

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• Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field.

  Alan Tower Waterman

  Teacher, Teaching, Fields

  "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" Vol. 9, No. 2, published by by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., (p. 38), March 1953.

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• The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested search for new knowledge and an adequate number of men and women trained for carrying on such research and for teaching young scientists.

  Alan Tower Waterman

  Teaching, Men, Numbers

  "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" Vol. 9, No. 2, published by by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., (p. 38), March 1953.

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• Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood than one would expect from looking movies.

  Hortense Powdermaker

  Musician, Novelists, Hollywood

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• The world needs scientists, engineers - and if a brain is qualified to do such work, it should be encouraged, not smothered because it is a female brain.

  Marguerite Rawalt

  Brain, Female, Needs

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• Color does to me what the touch of the earth did to the giant Antaeus - sends new life, vitality, courage, initiative surging through me. Sometime the scientists will discover that color is a renewer of life.

  Emilie Loring

  Color, Vitality, Giants

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• Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

  Dan Barker

  Real, Sunday, Hands

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• I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didnt wear off, but I found other interests.

  Emun Elliott

  Three, Found, Standards

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• What they are planning for us; sex, religion, money in the New World Order. Which is more corrupt? The liberal media or the multi-national corporations? Why truly big money wants your children to try drugs, even while they campaign to discourage these evils. How the brilliant scientists have come up with the proven methods to destroy your family. All you have to do is let your guard down.

  Hans von Seeckt

  Sex, Children, Media

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• Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Elderly, Twenties, Would Be

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Rendezvous With Rama”, p.6, RosettaBooks

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• This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

  Meg Cabot

  Athlete, Artist, People

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• The right way to deal with mental unhappiness must be within the mind too. On an emotional level, anger, fear and worry bring unhappiness. Scientists say they eat into our immune system. On the other hand, we are also equipped with a sense of affection and compassionate concern for the well-being of others.

  Dalai Lama

  Emotional, Hands, Worry

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• Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out that the patterns may never be finished. They're open-ended. In standard science this hit some things that most scientists have a negative reaction to. Science doesn't like perpetual novelty.

  W. Brian Arthur

  Important, Negative, Asking

  "Coming from Your Inner Self". www.presencing.org. April 16, 1999.

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• I think I was a born scientist.

  Ken Wilber

  Thinking, Born

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• There will be well-testable theories, hardly testable theories, and non-testable theories. Those which are non-testable are of no interest to empirical scientists. They may be described as metaphysical.

  Karl Popper

  May, Metaphysical, Theory

  Karl Raimund Popper (2002). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.346, Psychology Press

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• Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

  Mae Jemison

  Fun, People, Knows

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• The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace. It simply observed a decline in the number of 22-year-olds and projected that this demographic trend would result in a huge shortfall. This could be termed the supply-side theory of labor market analysis. But making labor market projections without considering the demand side of the equation doesn't pass the laugh test with experts in the field.

  Howard Wolpe

  Years, Numbers, Laughing

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