Scientist Quotes - Page 8

• Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.

  Rick Perry

  Groups, Facts, Stood Up

  "Is Rick Perry a 21st-century Galileo?" by Martin Robbins, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2011.

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• It is shameful that there are so few women in science. [...] In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men. In Chinese society, a woman is valued for what she is, and men encourage her to accomplishments yet she remains eternally feminine.

  Chien-Shiung Wu

  Men, America, Chinese

  "Queen of Physics". "Newsweek" no. 61, 20, May 20, 1963.

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• Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

  George Andrew Olah

  Latin, Reading, School

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• One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their lives in the search of truths that are irrelevant to them.

  John Silber

  Life, Dubious, Forget

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• There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or that the whole idea of evolution is a conspiracy of godless scientists. Almost all of these people can vote and some of them have got guns.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Gun, Land

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• The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are read by our most esteemed critics and poets (who don't usually like them much) and nobody else takes any notice. An increasing number of highly literate people simply ignore what the 'Highbrows' are doing. It says nothing to them. The Highbrows in return ignore and insult them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Race, Numbers, America

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.276, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

  Walter Isaacson

  Hero, Paris

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• The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible ... I do not claim that the reproducible by itself is more important than the unique. But I do claim that the unique exceeds the treatment by scientific method. Indeed it is the aim of this method to find and test natural laws.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Science, Unique, Law

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• Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I don't believe it has any negative impact on people's lives outside of intolerance. Why do I go to church? It's like asking, why did you marry that woman? You make up reasons, but it's probably just smell. I love the smell of candles. It's an aesthetic thing.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Believe, Impact, Talking

  "Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the Prophet of Boom and Doom" by Bryan Appleyard, www.thetimes.co.uk. June 01 2008,.

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• The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.

  Peter Agre

  Cells, Enthusiasm, Energy

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• When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion.

  Paul Erdos

  Education, Children, Math

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• Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known well - that the individual condition of each is tragic. Each of us is alone: sometimes we escape from solitariness, through love or affection or perhaps creative moments, but those triumphs of life are pools of light we make for ourselves while the edge of the road is black: each of us dies alone.

  C.P. Snow

  Light, Creative, Black

  "The Two Cultures".

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• My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.

  Peter Agre

  Independent, Medicine, Goal

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• In their last four Blackburn have lost 3-0, 3-1, 5-3 and 3-2. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that's 12 goals conceded

  Alan Brazil

  Work Out, Goal, Four

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• Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Successful, Artist

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

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• A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian than it is. This probably comes from the oversimplification inevitable in secondary sources: low-level textbooks semipopular articles, and so on. Also, there is probably some wishful thinking involved. In the years after Darwin, his advocates hoped to find predictable progressions. In general. these have not been found-yet the optimism has died hard and some pure fantasy has crept into textbooks.

  David M. Raup

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.

  Peter Garrett

  Believe, Talking, Years

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

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• Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Agents, Way

  Ezra Pound (1968). “Literary Essays of Ezra Pound”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

  Wietse Venema

  Six Months, Want, Might

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• Thanks to the ongoing support of the Government of Ontario, RHF, in partnership with the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, has galvanized Ontario’s best researchers, clinicians and scientists to accelerate the translation of the most promising research into practical solutions. This commitment enables the ongoing leveraging of federal, provincial and private sector funds to allow Canadian SCI researchers to embark on a national and global collective journey towards making a difference in the lives of people with spinal cord injury and other disabilities.

  Rick Hansen

  Commitment, Journey, Differences

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• At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Real, Encounters, Firsts

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• The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

  Roberto Unger

  Treasure, Should, Riddle

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• A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

  Harmony Korine

  Judging, Moral, Economic

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• Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

  C.P. Snow

  Two, Snow, Groups

  C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.4, Cambridge University Press

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• A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf of Maine to the Amazonian rain forests, the tropical coral reefs to old growth forests of the Northwest as well as rivers, lakes, and wetlands. I found the wealth of information not only accessible but riveting . . . Eisenberg's powerful, beautifully written book . . . has the potential to open many people's eyes, minds, and hearts.

  Elizabeth Cunningham

  Powerful, Rain, Book

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