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The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems. – N. W. Dougherty, 1955	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. – Max Lucado	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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. – Marie Curie	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. – Claude Levi-Strauss	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.' – Stephen William Hawking	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. – Arthur C. Clarke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether. – Max Percy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist...The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error. – Joyce	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. – Harrison Ford	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions. – Claude Levi-Strauss	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He altered the image of the Jew from that of rabbi, merchant, wanderer, to that of scientist, farmer and soldier. – Shimon Peres	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. – M. Cartmill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems. – N. W. Dougherty	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. – Richard Feynman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. – Konrad Lorenz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible. – Andrew Schneider	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied. – Kedar Joshi	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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