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Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. -- Albert Einstein
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. -- Henri Poincare
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists. -- Richard P. Feynman
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. -- James D. Watson
The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose -- Bill Bryson
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. -- Ray Bradbury
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. -- Konrad Lorenz
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. -- Konrad Lorenz
No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit. -- Stephen Toulmin
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well. -- Albert Einstein
There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed. -- Linus Pauling
From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left. -- Deepak Chopra
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. -- James D. Watson
... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses of knowledge by the ruffian or the bully other than by suppressing the knowledge. -- Percy Williams Bridgman
May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. -- Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
Scientists are complaining that the new dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give kids a mistaken impression. What about the fact that the dinosaurs are singing and dancing? -- Jay Leno
There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it-and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting. -- Carlo Rubbia
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances. -- Albert Einstein
My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist. -- Isidor Isaac Rabi
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being. -- Albert Einstein
Scientist alone is true poet. -- Allen Ginsberg
Scientist believe in things, not in person -- Marie Curie
As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses. -- Henry Paulson
My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist -- Robin Williams
Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist. -- Friedrich L. Bauer
If I weren't a Christian Scientist, and I saw "Trog" advertised on a marquee across the street, I'd think I'd contemplate suicide. -- Joan Crawford
I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity. -- Richard Preston
Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that. -- Allen Ginsberg
While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets. -- Adam Mansbach
A journey of a Data Scientist is straightforward - start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. -- Damian Mingle
I've got a new studio set up very much based around live mixing and also mixing analogue and digital systems. Inspired by the late King Tubby and Scientist. -- Subb-an
Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule. -- Ellen DeGeneres
A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives. -- George Wald
I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something you do naturally. I don't sit there reading 'New Scientist,' putting post-it notes next to ideas. -- Alastair Reynolds
My transition from scientist to entrepreneur? Some would say that I still haven't made that transition. -- Robert Moog
The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it. -- Jason Silva
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. -- Richard P. Feynman
If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists. -- Erwin Schrodinger
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth. -- H. P. Lovecraft
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. -- Loren Eiseley
Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box. -- Roland Joffe
The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS. -- Philip Emeagwali
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. -- Marie Curie
You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is. -- Dean Kamen
I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim. -- Paul Farmer
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. -- David Cronenberg
If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better. -- Paula Cole
Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport. -- Saina Nehwal
Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect. -- Steven Pinker
Throughout my career, as both a physician and a scientist, I have drawn inspiration from Merck's unwavering commitment to scientific excellence. Over time, this commitment has brought forth an unparalleled number of breakthrough medicines and vaccines that improve the lives of patients around the world. -- Roger M. Perlmutter
Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back. -- Alan Shepard
I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option. -- Eddie Vedder
I was always very curious about what a scientist's life was like when I was young. Of course, when I was young, you didn't have very many opportunities to find out with no web, TV. I was very lucky: I was born in the city of Chicago and went to the University of Chicago where I actually saw things. -- James D. Watson
Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me. -- Bonnie Bassler
When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career. -- Amy Chua
No scientist thinks in formulae. -- Albert Einstein
I am not a scientist. -- Ronald Reagan
I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist. -- Roland Emmerich
Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. -- Harrison Ford
Be a scientist, save the world. -- Richard Smalley
I am a great female scientist. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I just wanted to be a scientist -- Terrence Howard
The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination. -- Max Planck
Exploration is the sport of the scientist -- Auguste Piccard
I was going to be a scientist. -- Ben Okri
God is a scientist, not a magician. -- Albert Einstein
I think I was a born scientist. -- Ken Wilber
Any kind of person can be a scientist. -- Maria Klawe
Touch a scientist and you touch a child. -- Ray Bradbury
A scientist should be the happiest of men. -- George Wald
I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart. -- Ina Garten
I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist. -- Steven Hatfill
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. -- David Cronenberg
An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains. -- Anton Chekhov
The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. -- Hans Selye
You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really. -- Martin Fleischmann
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. -- Robert Jarvik
I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist. -- Tara Reid
There's no term to the work of a scientist. -- Walter Reisch
I do love science. My father is a scientist. -- Allison Silverman
I thank God for not making me a computer scientist. -- Daniel J. Bernstein
Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician. -- Nate Silver
Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon. -- Christopher Reeve
A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences. -- Fritz Leiber
Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss. -- Albert Einstein
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. -- Jean Rostand
Today's advanced STEM graduate could be tomorrow's world-class, world-changing scientist. -- Todd Park
My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey. -- Jim Fowler
I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator. -- Rachel Cusk
A scientist is just a kid who never grew up. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist. -- Steve Squyres
Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist. -- Bob Dylan
I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist. -- Steve Squyres
I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived. -- Michio Kaku
A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable. -- Anne McCaffrey
I am a scientist. I go where the facts take me. -- Willie Soon
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine. -- Alan Kay
Nature is a better scientist than any human can ever be. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science. -- John Lennox
I love to be a scientist. I've always enjoyed being curious. -- Stefan Hell
I am not a scientist, but I don't need to be. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was. -- Theodore von Karman
Tilth is something every farmer can recognize but no scientist can measure. -- Walter Russell
The mystic sees God in everything; the scientist, atoms; the poet, poetry. -- Marty Rubin
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. -- Irving Langmuir
As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data. -- Francis Collins
A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing. -- Walter Reisch
The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper -- E. O. Wilson
The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!' -- Jon Stewart
I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills. -- Terri Windling
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk. -- Bill Nye
Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in -- Scott Nicholson
First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that. -- Chris Shays
First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that. -- Chris Shays
I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee

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