(465 quotes found)
“Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders while computer scientists stand on each other's toes.”
R. W. Hamming
“Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution”
Theodosius Dobzhansky
“A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.”
W. H. Auden
“Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.”
James A. Michener
“Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe”
Albert Einstein
“The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.”
A. Lwoff
“The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.”
Wilbur Wright
“What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying”
Nikita Khrushchev
“If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.”
Rita Dove
“I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.”
Jacques Cousteau
