197 Quotes About Scientist

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference — asking good questions — made me become a scientist.

This is more like the scientists I know. Authority outweighs evidence, at least for as long as the authority lives.

What the scientists are apt to forget: the difference between quantity and quality is one of quality, not of -quantity.

I have learned to have more trust in the scientist than he does in himself.

He was guillotined in the French Revolution, and he said he’d keep blinking his eyes after his head was off, for as long as he had consciousness. He blinked seventeen times. That’s a scientist,” Gill said.

{In a letter to his friend Rudolf Wagner}I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not.

From a social standpoint the man of science does not exist.

It is good to know what you are doing. The man with his pickled fish has set down one truth and has recorded in his experience many lies. The fish is not that color, that texture, that dead, nor does he smell that way.

Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be