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Letter "S" » Scientists
«A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth-and then not keep it from anyone.»
«A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.»
Author: Frederick Seitz
| About:
Curiosity,
Scientists
| Keywords:
childhood, lingers, perennial, scientist
«Creation 'scientists' must be aware that the informed workers in literary interpretation and in physical and biological sciences regard their stance as irresponsible, and that in the scholarly world as well as in the schools they are doing irreparabl»
Author: Ken Campbell
| About:
Scientists
| Keywords:
creation science, informed, interpretation, irresponsible, physical science, scholarly, sciences, stance
«I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Science,
Scientists
| Keywords:
fairy, fairy tale, impress, laboratories, laboratory, natural phenomenon, natural science, phenomena, placed, scientist, tale, technician, technicians
«May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.»
Author: Patrick M. S. Blackett
(Physicist)
| About:
Failure,
Scientists
| Keywords:
apparatus, consistent, irritating, Once in a Lifetime, scientist
«If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.»
Author: Rita Dove
| About:
Celebrity,
Scientists,
Value
| Keywords:
celebrities, drench, drenched, drenched in, drenches, In the Shadows, sun-drenched, The Shadows, thinkers
«And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By they I mean computers: I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Computers,
Funny,
Scientists
| Keywords:
all the time, Computers, scientists, smarter, talk to, The Scientists
«A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Scientists
| Keywords:
confronting, fairy, fairy tales, impress, laboratories, laboratory, natural phenomenon, phenomena, scientist, tales, technician, technicians
«It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Scientists
| Keywords:
attainment, effected, extent, paradoxical, scientific, the help, to a great extent
«As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.»
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