#scientist

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#been #get #great #him #human

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. ↗

— James D. Watson

#conception #contrast #could #dull #goodly

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers. ↗

— James D. Watson

#good #graham #graham greene #greene #heroes

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#because #block #building #building block #claim

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#amazing #being #body #choice #continually

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#because #bitter #did #died #fact

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#becoming #dreamed #ever #general #i

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. ↗

— George Wald

#lives #nothing #reality #scientist

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#efforts #forms #fully #government #international

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature. ↗