197 Quotes About Scientist

You wanted to know how I get my ideas - I don't - my ideas get me.

The more I write, the more I find it hard to describe my work with any contemporary label.

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist’s job to find the ways in which these laws can serve the human will. However, it is not the scientist’s job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used. This responsibility rests with the American people and with their chosen representatives.

Identify your divine gift and use it to serve humanity.

As a rationalist, pragmatist, and a scientist I rarely involve myself in the cosmological arguments of the creation of the universe.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

It's my love for the people that made me a scientist and a monk (a poet even), not my intellect.

Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare}