I wasn't naturally a scientist, but I was always fascinated by how the world worked and why things were the way they were.

I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.

In spite of the tireless efforts of our scientist, it is possible that we may never find a successful coronavirus vaccine.

The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.

In my country where I was born, Guyana, we push more for education. It's more being a lawyer, doctor, teacher, or scientist.

It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

There is no debate among any statured scientists of what is happening. The only debate is the rate at which it is happening.

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf.

My life is pretty small. Even as a successful scientist, I'm not a public figure. I like people - I just don't know that many!

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun!

Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about.

The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

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.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

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.

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

I love watching programs about Discovery Channel and just reading New Scientist, and all that kind of stuff. Im just fascinated by it.

I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.

Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

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