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Scientists are peeping
toms at the keyhole of eternity.
--Arthur Koestler
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Scientists have odious
manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money
of them.
--Mark Twain
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Science fiction is no more written for scientists
that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
--Brian Aldiss
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The best scientist
is
open to experience and begins with romance -- the idea that anything is
possible.
--Ray Bradbury
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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists
is science itself.
--Jacob Bronowski
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The scientist has
marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find
the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet,
not a scientist.
--Frank Lloyd Wright
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The scientist is
not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right
questions.
--Claude Levi-Strauss
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When a distinguished but elderly
scientist states that something is possible,
he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible,
he is very probably wrong.
--Arthur C. Clarke
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An artist deals with aspects of reality different
from those which a scientist sees.
--Richard Wright
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10
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Everybody's a mad
scientist, and life is their lab. We're all
trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend
off madness and chaos.
--David Cronenberg
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Facts are the air of the
scientists. Without them you never can fly.
--Ivan Pavlov
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I am not a scientist.
I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
--Jacques Cousteau
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12
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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the
thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the
pure scientist.
--E. B. White
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I cannot give any
scientist of any age better advice than this:
the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing
over whether it is true or not.
--Peter Medawar
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I have little patience with
scientists who take a board of wood, look
for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling
is easy.
--Albert Einstein
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I haven't the slightest idea where fashions in
pathology are born. . . . Possibly some of my older readers dimly recollect
the days when modish scientists declared
that the only dependable method of relieving a toothache was a clean, conclusive
appendect
--Ogden Nash
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I worry about scientists
discovering
that lettuce has been fattening all along. . . .
--Erma Bombeck
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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
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If politicians and
scientist were lazier, how much happier we
should all be.
--Evelyn Waugh
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If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists
are no better than gossips.
--Penelope Fitzgerald
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If those scientists
are
so smart, why do they all count backward?
--Robert Orben
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist
to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast.
--Konrad Lorenz
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One could not be a successful
scientist without realizing that, a goodly
number of scientists are
not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
--Konrad Lorenz
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist,
as it is of the great scientist,
that he frightens the ordinary man.
--Loren Eiseley
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It is inexcusable for
scientists to torture animals; let them make
their experiments on journalists and politicians.
--Henrik Ibsen
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Life is extinct on other planets because their
scientistswere
more advanced than ours.
-- Unknown
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Look at these cows and remember that the greatest
scientists
in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.
--Michael Pupin
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Man can't help hoping even if he is a
scientist. He can only hope more accurately.
--Karl A. Menninger
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Medical scientists
are
nice people, but you should not let them treat you.
--August Bier
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Nothing leads the
scientist so astray as a premature truth.
--Jean Rostand
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Scientists tell us
the universe is made up of protons, electrons, and neutrons. They forgot
to mention morons.
-- Unknown
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