(465 quotes found)
“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.”
Jacques Cousteau
“It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors”
Thomas Henry Huxley
“If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be”
Evelyn Waugh
“The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive”
John Sladek
“A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth-and then not keep it from anyone.”
Arthur Kornberg
“This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.”
Albert Einstein
“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.”
George Sarton
“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
“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.”
Frank Zappa
