178 Quotes About Scientists

In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

Marge: Homer! There's someone here who can help you... Homer: Is it Batman? Marge: No, he's a scientist. Homer: Batman's a scientist?! Marge: It's not Batman!

Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.

Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

Come in every time you're in D.C. and teach me about the oceans. They didn't do that when I was a scientist in Washington. It's different now. All of a sudden, they've realized that there's more in this for them.

If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.