Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marshall McLuhan

I do not explain, I explore.

Poul Anderson

If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

John Cage

My work became an exploration of non-intention.

Duane G. Carey

So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.

Walter Reisch

A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

James Hansen

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

Luis Walter Alvarez

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

John Charles Polanyi

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

Leo Szilard

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

Alan Alda

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

Ben Okri

I was going to be a scientist.

Arthur Koestler

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Thomas R. Cech

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.