Scientist Quotes - Page 5

• The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Witty

  1950 Out of My LaterYears.

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• Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Character, Angel

  "Why there's no such thing as a gifted child" by Wendy Berliner, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2017.

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• There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

  Enrico Fermi

  Science, Discovery, Two

  "Nuclear Principles in Engineering". Book by Tatjana Jevremovic, 2005.

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• It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Mistake, Math

  "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)

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• Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

  Alan Valentine

  Angel, Science, Discovery

  ALAN VALENTINE (1962). “1913 America Between Two Worlds”

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• The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

  Ashley Montagu

  Religious, Fear, Science

  "Science and Creationism". Book by Ashley Montagu (Introduction, p. 9), 1984.

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• There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming.

  Paul Davies

  Powerful, Science, If There Is A God

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• It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.

  Arthur Leonard Schawlow

  Religious, Science, Design

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• You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

  Steve Wozniak

  Objectivity, Forget Everything, Marketing

  Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith (2006). “IWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon - Getting to the Core of Apple's Inventor”

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• We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Cheer Up, Humility

  "Der Spiegel", October 17, 1988.

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• Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Motivational, Travel, Adventure

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1954). “The Nature of Science: And Other Lectures”

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• Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Science, Creating

  "Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms".

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• The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

  Henri Poincare

  Beautiful, Math, Science

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.318, Modern Library

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• It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.

  Robert Jastrow

  Science, Men, Views

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• The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Science, Design, Tuning

  Edward Robert Harrison (1986). “Masks of the universe”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire character; and, more often than not, he ends up becoming what the German language so appropriately calls a Fachidiot (professional idiot).

  Erwin Chargaff

  Character, Successful, Science

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• I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ignorance, Enough, Significant

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• Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Physicist

  "Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World".

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• My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

  James D. Watson

  Hero, Good Writers, Knows

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• Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do.

  Robert Winston

  Cds, Design, Example

  "My bright idea: Robert Winston". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2010.

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• A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Artist, Behinds

  "The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

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• I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all.

  Jose Saramago

  Stars, Book, Character

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• By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Science, Law, Demand

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• Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

  Aristotle

  Science, Law, Medicine

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• Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

  Fred Brooks

  Learning, Programming, Computer Language

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