Top Scientist Quotes

Never question the conviction of a scientist, based on mere scriptures.

So a scientist and an engineer are tossed into separate rooms, stocked with tools and parts, and told that they aren't allowed out until they've produced a working prototype for a radio receiver. Afte...

Scientist Definition

(n.) One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.

I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I consider myself an atheist.

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.

And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the ear...

Sophistication is not science people, simplicity is.

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.

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 tha...

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say...

The philosopher and the scientist emphasize different features of the world, follow different interests and inspire different passions in the soul. But the aim of their study is in each case the same:...

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things b...

If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.

Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom.

You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting a...

Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you.

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.