Mad Scientist Quotes

• Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

  David Cronenberg

  Math, Science, Technology

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

  David Cronenberg

  Mad, Labs, Life Is

  "Cronenberg on Cronenberg". Book by David Cronenberg and Chris Rodley, January 1, 1992.

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• Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.

  Warren Ellis

  Dream, Bad Ass, Ideas

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• Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Science, Law, Mad

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• The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.

  Lewis Wolpert

  Mad, World, Scientist

  Lewis Wolpert (1998). “The Unnatural Nature of Science”, p.92, Harvard University Press

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• I'd love to be a mad scientist who plays around with chemistry, and solves all the world's problems and creates a few of them himself.

  Kellan Lutz

  Play, Mad, World

  Source: www.twilightlexicon.com

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• To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.

  Carl Wilhelm Scheele

  Happy, Heart, Science

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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, Scientist

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

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• I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, Beautiful, Girl

  1944 Crazy Like a Fox,'Captain Future, BlockThat Kick'.

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• We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Fun, People, Mad

  "Guest Editorial: World Domination". www.linuxjournal.com. January 1, 2000.

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• My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Heart, Reality, Mad

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• I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

  Kyle Chandler

  Mad, Kitchen, Scientist

  "Man of the House: Kyle Chandler". Interview with Kate Coyne, www.goodhousekeeping.com. January 25, 2008.

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• You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.' Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's...almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way.

  Mira Grant

  Sweet, Nice, Night

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• Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions.

  Andrew Tudor

  Sleep, Psychosis, Mad

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• I was always a mad scientist type - an inventor and just a generally inventive person, and that has remained the same. But one thing that *has* changed is that I've always been aggressively pro-business, with the mentality that whoever pays me, gets me - but now, I'd rather be broke than contribute to destroying the world my son is inheriting - both the social fabric, and obviously the environmental.

  Sam Lamott

  Son, Mad, Environmental

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I'm writinng my first full-length novel, which is based on a novella I wrote called "The Mad Scientist's Daughter." I'm having a wonderful time with it, but of course it's presenting challenges as well. Stories always do, no matter what they are.

  Theodora Goss

  Daughter, Mad, Challenges

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• It's the oldest story in the world. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back thanks to the unethical behavior of megalomaniacal mad scientists who never met a corpse they wouldn't try to resurrect. Anyone coming within a hundred yards of my happy ending had better pray that they're immune to bullets. - Shaun Mason

  Mira Grant

  Girl, Boys, Mad

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• I remember one play [when I was kid] was about this murderous mad scientist, and my whole part was to be the guy who got thrown into a vat of acid as the curtain went up. I was very pissed off at these older kids; they'd outsmarted me.

  Paul Reubens

  Kids, Play, Mad

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.

  Jason Mraz

  Mad, Scientist, Charm

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Sexy, Simple, Guitar

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• If it makes you feel any better, you’re not as bad as Keith. He was here earlier today and was so nervous, he literally kept looking over his shoulder.” Lee paused thoughtfully. “I think it might have been because Adrian kept laughing like a mad scientist at those old black-and-white movies he was watching.

  Richelle Mead

  Black And White, Thinking, Mad

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.72, Penguin

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• I whirled around and saw no one. No psychotic mad scientists, anyway. "Jackpot, Max! Jackpot!" It was was Fang, and he was giggling hysterically. For those of you just joining us, Fang doesn't giggle. Especially hysterically. So for a second, this seemed like one of the weirder dreams of recent days.

  James Patterson

  Dream, Mad, Max

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