197 Quotes About Scientist


  • Author P. W. Bridgman
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    I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than the average man should have a philosophy. For there are certain aspects of the relation between science and society that the scientist can appreciate better than anyone else, and if he does not insist on this significance no one else will, with the result that the relation of science to society will become warped, to the detriment of everybody.

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  • Author Henry Edward Armstrong
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    I notice that, in the lecture … which Prof. Lowry gave recently, in Paris … he brought forward certain freak formulae for tartaric acid, in which hydrogen figures as bigamist … I may say, he but follows the loose example set by certain Uesanians, especially one G. N. Lewis, a Californian thermodynamiter, who has chosen to disregard the fundamental canons of chemistry—for no obvious reason other than that of indulging in premature speculation upon electrons as the cause of valency…

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  • Author Kurt Vonnegut
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    I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

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  • Author Neils Bohr
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    If a scientist does not understand a problem, he writes down many formulae, but as soon as he has understood it, there remain at most two.

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  • Author Runa Pigden
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    Unfortunately, life does not come with a handbook or even a search engine to help us find all the answers. We must be true scientists from day one, experimenting, drawing conclusions, and reevaluating previous concepts. We can never be certain that we did any of it correctly, but at least we have tried.

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  • Author Sarah MacLean
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    She looked to Pippa. "Have I made it difficult for you?"Pippa hedged. "Not at all. Castleton sent news to Father just last week that he was planning to court me in earnest, and it's not as though I'm the most ordinary of debutantes."It was an understatement. Pippa was something of a bluestocking, very focused on the sciences and fascinated by the insides of living things, from plants to people. She'd once stolen a goose from the kitchens and dissected it in her bedchamber.

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