Scientist Quotes - Page 29

• The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

  Robert Nozick

  Imagination, Philosopher, Surprise

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• I am not a scientist.

  Ronald Reagan

  Science, Experiments

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• [A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She said, "That explains it. The scientist would have tried it on mice first."

  Ronald Reagan

  Science, Waiting, Firsts

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• To the naked eye, our oceans are beautiful. But scientists tell us that all of the world's fisheries will collapse by 2048, unless we change how we manage them. Help protect our oceans so the next generation can also enjoy their bounty.

  Ted Danson

  Beautiful, Ocean, Eye

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• This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Self, Miracle, Persons

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

  Richard Hamming

  Toes, Computer, Programming

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• Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Today, Expected

  1887 The Genealogy of Morals, essay 3,'What Do Ascetic Ideals Mean?'

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• What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.277, Penguin

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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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• 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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• A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is a reason we call science a discipline! Inferior minds bolt or build pyres to roast the witches in their midst!

  Rick Yancey

  Discipline, Mind, Action

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Science, Together

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, Principles, Essentials

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.274, Princeton University Press

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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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• Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Stars, Science, Moon

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• I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

  Robert Jarvik

  Heart, Thinking, Doctors

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• My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mother, Father, Class

  "Mindfulness in the Modern World: An Interview With Jon Kabat-Zinn". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2012.

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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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• But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are. The stench of formaldehyde may be as potent as the whiff of incense in stimulating a naturally idolatrous understanding.

  Robertson Davies

  Science, Understanding, Dubious

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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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• Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Dream, Responsibility, Science

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