Quotes of: Scientists Keyword

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

Donella Meadows

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.

Greg Graffin

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Henrik Ibsen

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

Walter Gilbert

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

Jean Rostand

Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden Planet's Monsters of the Id.

Virginia Postrel

Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.

Aubrey de Grey

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

Barry Commoner

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

Tammy Baldwin

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

INTERNATIONAL scientists said they had found signs of the Higgs boson, an elementary subatomic particle believed to have played a vital role in the creation of the universe after the Big Bang. Peter Higgs is an 86-year-old British theoretical physici...

Khalid Masood

The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is billions of years old. Young Earthers measure the age of the universe in terms of thousands of years.

Norman Geisler

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

John Bardeen

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

Evelyn Glennie

As a scientist I have come to learn that information is only as valuable as its source.

Angels & Demons

It was one of those moments that no scientist can ever reduce to numbers, try as she might.

Juliet

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

Red Mars

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

Science and Creationism

Love permeates all things and laws. Scientists should research it more.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

The Martian Chronicles

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist