#scientist

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

I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake? ↗

— James Merrill

#did #i #like #need #newton

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

— Linus Pauling

#air #facts #fly #never #scientists

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

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science. ↗

— Yann Martel

#scientists #life

Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#lovers #romance #scientist #search #swashbuckling

Nine women possess the same rights as a man... to learning and knowledge. ↗

— Kathleen Krull quote by Eliza Orzeskowa

#scientists #women #men

The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#god #lies #nature #science #scientists

Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a true religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied. ↗

— Kedar Joshi

#religion #science #scientists #simplicity #religion