#scientist

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment. ↗

— P. D. James

#even #every #experiment #god #off

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#embraces #interpreter #lenses #like #man

Dedicated researchers seek better treatments and cures for diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's and every form of cancer. But these scientists face an array of disincentives. We can do better. ↗

— Michael Milken

#array #better #cancer #cures #dedicated

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#because #become #cannot #changing #climate

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

— Linus Pauling

#air #facts #fly #never #scientists

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#body #certain #community #economic #features

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics. ↗

— John Pople

#branches #changed #could #follow #had

Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress. ↗

— John Pople

#base #changing #could #easy #frequently

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. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#specimen-collection #experience

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#education #faith #god #gravity #isaac-newton