Scientists quotes

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◆ Scientists have yet to explain how 300 people can be working at a Wal-Mart but only 4 registers will be open.

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◆ What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

- Jacques Cousteau99

◆ As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

- Ursula K LeGuin99

◆ It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors

- Thomas Henry Huxley99

◆ I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

- Marie Curie99

◆ When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

- Arthur C Clarke99

◆ We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it involves outer space.

- Dave Barry99

◆ May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.

- Patrick M S Blackett99

◆ Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

- Dr Linus Pauling99

◆ A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

- Frederick Seitz99

◆ If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.

- Rita Dove99

◆ There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

- Marie Curie99

◆ Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution

- Theodosius Dobzhansky99

◆ Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns

- Mitch Ratcliffe99

◆ Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.

- Mark Twain99