Scientists Quotes

One of the most curious consequences of quantum physics is that a particle like an electron can seem...

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, b...

But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the ...

For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly f...

Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist...

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried

I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, ...

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied wi...

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at tim...

Humboldt's early biographer, F.A. Schwarzenberg, subtitled his life of Humboldt What May Be Accompli...

Until I was twenty I was sure there was a being who could see everything I did and who didn't like m...

The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sen...

There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with...

For scientists, reality is not optional.

A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the tradition...

It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowl...

We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipw...

On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion yea...

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

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

...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague t...

One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the ...

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the pu...

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence...

The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the ...

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Roy...

There is a curious idea among unscientific men that in scientific writing there is a common plateau ...

It is very easy to grow tired at collecting; the period of a low tide is about all men can endure. A...

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