Scientist Quotes - Page 21

• Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

  Richard Hamming

  Toes, Computer, Programming

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• Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

  Honore de Balzac

  Circles, Problem, Reason

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• We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

  Adam Savage

  Real, Curiosity, Educator

  "Stay Curious with Jamie and Adam of Mythbusters". Interview with Jenny Williams, www.wired.com. October 5, 2009.

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• Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.

  George Carlin

  Apathy, Today, Claims

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• The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.

  Margaret Mead

  Cutting, Science, Giving

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood.

  Max Landis

  Dark, Childhood, Bipolar

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• I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Simple, Men

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• There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Mistake, Science, Opportunity

  "The New Industrial State". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter XVIII, Section 5, p. 208, 1967.

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• One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

  A. S. Byatt

  Reality, Talking, Reason

  "A.S. Byatt tells stories out of school", www.cnn.com. April 5, 2001.

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• We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Purpose, Weapons

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Skeletons, Becoming, Scared

  "Sept.10, 1941: Stephen Jay could born" Jess McNally, www.wired.com. September 10, 2010.

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• For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Science, Self, Views

  Rudyard Kipling, M.M. Kaye (2002). “Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Verse”, Kyle Cathie Limited

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• To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

  Simone Weil

  Science, Men, Names

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• The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

  Primo Levi

  Country, Believe, Science

  1985 Other People's Trades,'News from the Sky' (translated by Raymond Rosenthal,1989).

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• The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Discipline, Followers, Opinion

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

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• It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he teach, that he try to bring the most honest and intelligible account of new knowledge to all who will try to learn.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Science, Trying, Roles

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.82, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

  Ruth Benedict

  Opposites, Humanity, Culture

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.470, Transaction Publishers

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• The Microbe is so very small
  You cannot make him out at all,
  But many sanguine people hope
  To see him through a microscope.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Science, Sanguine, Microbes

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• I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Age, Doctrine, Fiction

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

  Donald Knuth

  Want, Fields, Facts

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• The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks.

  James Bryant Conant

  Fighting, Science, Prejudice

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• The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Science, Affair

  1906 Collected in The Notebooks of Paul Klee (published 1957).

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• The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

  Nigel Calder

  Unity, Patterns, Belief

  Nigel Calder (1969). “Violent universe: an eye-witness account of the commotion in astronomy 1968-69”

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• I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

  Richard Ernst

  Teaching, Research, Management

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• Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows how scientists and governments can better protect the world's oceans.

  Mohamed Nasheed

  Ocean, Book, Islands

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