Quotes of: Scientist Keyword

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

Fran Lebowitz

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

Christopher Hampton

Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

Cyril Ponnamperuma

He’s a scientist. He’s never cried. He flips through Googled image searches of burn victims while he touches himself.

Christy Leigh Stewart

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

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

Brian Greene

If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.

Bruno Latour

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.

Charles D. Broad

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

Charles Glover Barkla

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do…

George Lois

A scientist's accomplishments are equal to the integral of his ability integrated over the hours of his effort.

Henry B. Eyring

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

Joe Perry

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

John Pople

However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.

James Randi

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

Joanna Lumley

John Hammond: [to Gennaro, referring to Malcolm] I bring the scientists, you bring a rock star.

Jurassic Park

I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis... This time it's us that's doing it.

Frans Lanting

Okay, I'll say I would go back in time and bring scientists with me and create a hairspray that would not cause global warming. But it would still give us '80s hair.

Julianne Hough

I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification.

Greg Graffin

Homer: [to his dad] Sure Dr. Von Braun is a great scientist, but he isn't my hero.

October Sky

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.

Charles Petzold