Scientist Quotes - Page 34

• A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

  Walter Reisch

  Accomplished, Prove

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• There's no term to the work of a scientist.

  Walter Reisch

  Term

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• I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.

  C.P. Snow

  Ocean, Moving, Science

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• Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

  Kedar Joshi

  Religious, Science, Simple

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• The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.

  Joseph Campbell

  Moving, Doubt, Atheism

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• I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.

  C.P. Snow

  Husband, Father, Science

  C.P. Snow (2010). “The Physicists”, p.91, House of Stratus

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• No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing so. Rutherford was one of the greatest experimental physicists, but no nuclear scientist today would study his researches of fifty years ago. Their substance has all been infused into the common agreement, the textbooks, the contemporary papers, the living present.

  C.P. Snow

  Science, Past, Thinking

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• Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

  Anne Roe

  Communication, Social, Obligation

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• All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they hold more information than the Library of Congress. Within these libraries are millions of books, each a uniques masterpiece to see and touch. They are teaching this language to scientists. However, so far only one percent of the books have been deciphered. Some tell how to find new medicines; others reveal new things to eat... These treasure houses of knowledge are the ancient forests of our planet.

  Brock Adams

  Beautiful, Teaching, Book

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• RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Giving, Fool

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2492, Delphi Classics

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• The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something which can he solved." And hence the scientist does not use that popular phrase. We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Knowledge, Science, Talking

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• The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,500 scientists) has provided the world community with first class assessments of the soaring temperatures the world is facing, the devastating impacts of these rises and the ways in which we can try and avoid the worst effects of global warming. We now know climate change is real and the hand of humankind in this warming is becoming clearer and clearer.

  Klaus Topfer

  Real, Impact, Assessment

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• My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a scientist and physician. They worked at the same jobs for their entire life, 50 years each.

  David Plotz

  Mother, Jobs, Father

  "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.

  Erma Bombeck

  Worry, Fattening, Lettuce

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• Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in the person.

  Bill Bryson

  Quirky, Trying, Way

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• Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Want, Limits

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• An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

  Anton Chekhov

  Artist, Brain, Sometimes

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• To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Imagination, Mind

  "The Reach of Imagination". Essay by Jacob Bronowski, 1967.

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• The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have achieved. On the contrary, they head in this direction.

  Vaclav Havel

  Betrayal, Awards, Aspect

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• The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.

  Edward Weston

  Artist, Thinking, Facts

  Edward Weston (1971). “Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition: His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from the Daybooks & Letters”

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• It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded.

  Gary Zukav

  Self, People, World

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• Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Authority, Should, Scholar

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• Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Responsibility, Protect, Responsibility To Protect

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• I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Responsibility, Humanity, Remember

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.134, I.B.Tauris

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• I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Perception, Fields, Computer

  "Trumbull's vision". Interview with Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 1, 1997.

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