My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.
Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.
I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in our knowledge, which mankind may then proceed to use for purposes of destruction. My answer is that this is not the tragedy of the scientist; it is the tragedy of mankind.
I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home.
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.
What is a Gallagher Girl? She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy. . . a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.
Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.
When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can answer. That is, it is often the case that the operations of a science are not a consequence of the problematic of that science, but that the problematic is induced by the available means.
Cant you understand that romanticism is no more an enemy of science than mysticism is? In fact, romanticism and science are good for each other. The scientist keeps the romantic honest and the romantic keeps the scientist human.
Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook. . . Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.
The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is his adventure and never-ending delight. It is complaisant and elusive but never dull. It is wonderful both in the small and in the large. In short, its exploration is the highest occupation for a gentleman.
Computer scientists stand on each other's feet.
There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.
One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.
The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i. e. , he must be a dialectical materialist.
I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough.
My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.
Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.