197 Quotes About Scientist

Having the data is not the same as having the expertise to look through the data - if it were, everybody with a smartphone would be a doctor or a scientist.

As a scientist in the know, I am legally required to protect the next generation.

To a scientist physics is philosophy.

Whoever pretends that a technician, an architect, a doctor, an engineer, or any type of scientist should merely work with the in­struments in his own specific field while his people starve to death or fall in battle, has in fact taken the side of the enemy. He is not apolitical, he is political-but in opposition to movements for lib­eration.

It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered. In truth, Messrs Euler and Lagrange, who have not disdained this kind of research, have proved most of these theorems, and have even substituted extensive theories for the isolated propositions of Fermat. But there are several proofs which have resisted their efforts.

It's better to have no science than to have a science without accountability.

Science is like a candle, it can light up a room or it can burn down a house - in the hands of the responsible scientist it lights up the world but in the hands of the empty scientist it'll burn the whole world to ashes.

Science if put to real use for the benefit of humanity could eliminate suffering in a matter of months, yet suffering persists - you know why, because the science of today is driven by capitalism not curiosity. Science driven by capitalism creates a divided planet - where one section has more than they can digest and another has not even the essentials to keep body and soul together.

Ten average scientists with a strong sense of humanity can do more good to the world than a hundred brilliant scientists with weak humanity.