Scientist Quotes

Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.

Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”

Everybody doesn’t want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.

Ask “If that turned out to be true, would you still say they were good scientists?” The answer would reveal something about how they themselves understood what it is to be a scientist.

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

Just learning how to read music requires metrics, and I think that helps you with mathematics. A lot of scientists and doctors have a musical background – it’s very interesting.

I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.

[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.