Quotes by Scientist I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. Kurt Vonnegut hiroshimascientist Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire. Lawrence Solomon scientistperiodsworld The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals. Lauren Oliver scientistheartanimal Virtually every scientist now concedes that universe and time itself had beginning. So, whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe must have had a cause. Lee Strobel scientistuniversecauses I have never seen myself as an alarmist but rather as a scientist with a critical viewpoint, and in that sense I have always been a skeptic. I have devoted most of my career to developing models for predicting the weather, and in doing so I have learned the importance of validating forecasts against observed weather. As a result, that's an approach I strongly favor for "climate predictions." It's essential to validate model results, especially when dealing with complex systems such as the climate. It's essential do so properly if such predictions are to be considered credible. Lennart Bengtsson i-have-learnedscientistimportance Three stages of truth for scientists: Leo Szilard scientistthreeimportant A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify. Leo Szilard colleaguesaimscientist Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists. Leon M. Lederman scientistaskingsilly I am not a scientist, but I don't need to be. Leonardo DiCaprio scientistclimate-changeneeds You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills Leonardo da Vinci scientistskillsshould The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge. Lewis Wolpert scientistmadworld Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures. Lewis Thomas rebukescientistcat One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith. Leo Tolstoy scientistsuperstitionsmen 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 scientistscienceworld Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge. Lisa Randall scientistresearchideas I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.] Lise Meitner manhattanscientistbombs We've got to set up in our own community our scientists and scholars that can check what is going into our people. Louis Farrakhan scientistcommunitypeople I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors. Luis Walter Alvarez stampsvery-goodscientist It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts. Lukas Foss scientistdiscoveryart God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not. Lyman Abbott scientistthank-godthinking«678910111213141516»
