Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Suzuki

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

Bill Nye

I feel that I've often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain. Why the universe is accelerating in its expansion and what came before the Big Bang serve as compelling examples. The process of science provides a way to seek answers to those questions.

Ben Okri

I was going to be a scientist.

Arthur Koestler

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Taylor Wilson

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

Alan Alda

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

Susumu Tonegawa

I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us.

Donald Johanson

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

Science is what scientists do.

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

Patti Smith

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.

Colonel Sanders

Scientists are a bunch of romantics.

Alan Alda

I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.

Fabiola Gianotti

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

Kurt Vonnegut

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

Richard Smalley

Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

Isaac Asimov

Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be

Michael Crichton

The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.

Harrison Ford

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Martin Fleischmann

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.

James Hansen

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

Norman Lear

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

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.

Jon Stewart

Isn't it amazing what scientists can accomplish when no one makes them stop?

Leo Szilard

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

John Maeda

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

Sylvia Earle

There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, "Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the facts. We're not making this up."

Roland Emmerich

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

Terrence Howard

I just wanted to be a scientist

Tim Berners-Lee

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

Walter Russell

Tilth is something every farmer can recognize but no scientist can measure.