#scientist

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#been #farmers #fighting #food #front

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#could #exist #forget #know #liable

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#back #because #believe #contribute #fame

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

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We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

#bit #community #either #good #good thing

One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#comparing #descriptions #earth #geologists #geology

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#discovery #give #great #i #joy

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#also #depend #functions #i #institutions

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#consider #felt #form #game #i

A scientist should be the happiest of men. ↗

— George Wald

#men #scientist #should