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A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody. -- Joss Whedon
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. -- Albert Einstein
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. -- Loren Eiseley
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level -- Brian Greene
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity. -- George E. P. Box
Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find. -- Fritz Leiber
Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic of great scientists to know what to accept and what to leave out. -- Lewis Wolpert
They're a lot of great scientists and their mission is to protect people. It's the Environmental Protection Agency, but it's really a people protection agency. And they're out there trying to do their job and do the science. -- Josh Fox
We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity have nothing to say, have observed nothing, have no clear picture of even their own fields? -- John Steinbeck
We affirm the neutrality of Science ... Science is of no country. ... But if Science has no country, the scientist must keep in mind all that may work towards the glory of his country. In every great scientist will be found a great patriot. -- Louis Pasteur
[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying first to find whether they are not perhaps wrong. They work with bold conjectures and severe attempts at refuting their own conjectures. -- Karl Popper
Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be done." What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion? -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all. -- Martin Gardner
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a nationwide inquiry among America's most eminent mathematicians, including Einstein, to find out their working methods, was that thinking 'plays only a subordinate part in the brief, decisive phase of the creative act itself'. -- Eckhart Tolle
When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a little irritation - 'In the field of observation in science, fortune only favours the prepared mind.' It is not by chance that it is always the great scientists who have the luck. -- Lewis Wolpert
All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania ... is as priceless as genius. -- Ian Fleming
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it. -- Jean Rostand
I am a great female scientist. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
[My favorite scientist] Michio Kaku. He deals with wormholes. Check him out. He's great. -- Kellan Lutz
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity. -- Randy Schekman
The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist. -- Amit Kalantri
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise. -- Edward Weston
Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian. -- Levon Helm
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. -- Nicolas Berggruen
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies. -- Wilbur Wright
Mine is a gruesome job, but for a scientist with a love for the mechanics of the human body, a great one. -- Judy Melinek
There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun! -- Edwin Land
The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small. -- Giacomo Leopardi
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon. -- R. D. Laing
One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein. -- Michio Kaku
There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson. -- Tony Robbins
What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them. -- W. Edwards Deming
You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer. -- Marissa Mayer
In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas. -- Elizabeth Kenny
Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity. -- Robert Breault
Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else. -- Isaac Asimov

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