Scientist Quotes

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. (Arthur C. Clarke)
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. View quote
David Cronenberg
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions. View quote
Claude Lévi-Strauss
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. View quote
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others. View quote
Albert Einstein
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. View quote
Freeman Dyson
...there must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientist, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. View quote
Ralph Ellison
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. View quote
Konrad Lorenz
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. View quote
Henri Poincaré
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. (Hans Eysenck)
There must be no barriers to 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. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper. View quote
E. O. Wilson
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture-in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences. View quote
Fritz Leiber
Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist. View quote
Greg Egan
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. View quote
Ray Bradbury
The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
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)
No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything. View quote
Carroll Quigley
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature. View quote
Henri Poincaré
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. View quote
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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. View quote
James D. Watson