Scientist Quotes - Page 22

• When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.

  Paul Davies

  Jobs, Law, Limits

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• One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise.

  Thomas Dreier

  Children, Intelligent, Creative

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• If, as the scientist say, sex is such a driving force, why is so much of it nowadays found parked?

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Sex, Humorous

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• A book came out recently written by scientists and environmentalists that made me so angry. It said the only thing we have to worry about is big industry. Each individual who tries to make his or her own environment better is useless. I find this criminal, because then you have a billion people all saying, It doesn't matter what I do because I'm just one person. But if you turn that around and a billion people say, What I do does make a difference, then it will make a difference.

  Jane Goodall

  Women, Book, Differences

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• [May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that has been rendered to civilization by men and women of the Jewish faith. May [visitors] recall the long array of those who have been eminent in statecraft, in science, in literature, in art, in the professions, in business, in finance, in philanthropy and in the spiritual life of the world.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Art, Science

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• I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the Star Wars program designing weapons ignited by hydrogen bombs. I didn't want to do that. I thought about how many scientists had died in World War II.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, War, Science

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• We have to learn how scientists arrive at decisions. Once you use the scientific method, it doesn't mean that your decisions will be perfect. They'll be far more accurate than just opinions.

  Jacque Fresco

  Mean, Perfect, Decision

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• I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

  Seymour Cray

  Science, Decision, Intuition

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• In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future.  I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent application and humane use of science and technology.  This does not call for scientists to manage society.  What I suggest is applying the methods of science to the social system for the benefit of human kind and the environment.

  Jacque Fresco

  Intelligent, Technology, Doe

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• As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.

  J. Allen Hynek

  Past, Matter, Fit

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• Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.

  Candace Bushnell

  Princess, Somewhere Else, President

  Candace Bushnell (2010). “The Carrie Diaries”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

  Haldan Keffer Hartline

  Culture, Care, Contribution

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• I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Photography, Writing, Lions

  "Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's best shot" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2009.

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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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• My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Mean, Dark

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• Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists and engineers of a new age which has the power to destroy civilization unless we learn to live by spiritual laws.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Children, Law

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• There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist.

  Sam Allardyce

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Science

  "Sam Allardyce, the man: England's new boss from childhood to heart scare and being football's Mr Fix It" by Michael Gadd, www.mirror.co.uk. July 21, 2016.

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• You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Conventional

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• Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Tree, Facts, Conscious

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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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• We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Thinking, Judging, Research

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• Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all, it addresses urgent concerns of our fellow citizens. As Bartels shows, much of what we think we know about the politics of economic inequality is dead wrong. Bartels's perplexing and often unexpected discoveries should help refocus the gathering public debate about inequality and what to do about it.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Book, Thinking, Economic Inequality

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• Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation.

  Robert Jastrow

  Creation, Proof, Results

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• Science is what scientists do.

  Dennis Flanagan

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• The trouble is that you won't get the scientists to agree on a course of action. It is almost instinctive in science to accept contrary views, because disagreeing gives you guidance to experimental tests of ideas - your own and those offered by others...

  Frederick Seitz

  Views, Ideas, Giving

  Interview for the George C. Marshall Institute, September 3, 1997.

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