Scientist Quotes

“Isn’t that what it means to be a scientist? To push the boundaries of the unknown? To bravely, actively explore the enormity of our universe ?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“Be patient with him. If the same quality did not exist in you, you wouldn’t notice it in him.”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“The perfect being, huh? There is no such thing as perfect in this world. That may sound cliché, but it’s the truth. The average person admires perfection and seeks to obtain it. But, what’s the point of achieving perfection? There is none. Nothing. Not a single thing. I loathe perfection! If something is perfect, then there is nothing left. There is no room for imagination. No place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities. Do you know what that means? For scientists such as ourselves, perfection only brings despair. It is our job to create things more wonderful than anything before them, but never to obtain perfection. A scientist must be a person who finds ecstasy while suffering from that antimony. In short, the moment that foolishness left your mouth and reached my ears, you had already lost. Of course, that’s assuming you are a scientist”
― Tite Kubo

“Right? I don’t know why I did it. Temporary insanity, maybe. Did you ever do something that makes absolutely no sense, but you couldn’t help yourself?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“He shoved her aside and forced his sword, to the hilt, straight through James’s torso.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

“I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.”
― Leo Szilard

“I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Be brave. Be free from philosophies, prophets and holy lies. Go deep into your feelings and explore the mystery of your body, mind and soul. You will find the truth.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.”
― Nikola Tesla, Problem of Increasing Human Energy

“Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; mais une accumulation de faits n'est pas plus une science qu'un tas de pierres n'est une maison.

The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”
― Henri Poincare, Science and Hypothesis

“I have studied these things - you have not.”
― Isaac Newton

“All of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in travel we attain them all. Then we have our day of glory, when all our dreams come true, when we can be anything we like, as long as we like, and, when we are tired of it, pull up stakes and move on. Travel -- the solitude of the mountains, the emptiness of the desert, the delicacy of the minaret; eternal change, limitless contrast, unending variety.' (Eric Lang)”
― Robert Edison Fulton Jr., One Man Caravan

“A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.”
― Oliver Butterworth, The Enormous Egg

“Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, 'Arise, Sir: it is near seven o'clock and you have great work to do today.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [the scientist] must nevertheless remain sincere and modest, if only because his studies constantly bring home to him that, compared with the gigantic aims of science, his own contribution, no matter how important, is only a drop in the ocean of truth.”
― Louis de Broglie, Nouvelles perspectives en microphysique

“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.”
― Harmony Korine

“Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Love permeates all things and laws.
Scientists should research it more.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.

{Gibbs's obituary for scientist Rudolf Clausius}”
― Josiah Willard Gibbs

“The intention (of an artist) is (the same as a scientist)...to discover and reveal what is unsuspected but significant in life.”
― H W Leggett

“I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Science doesn't make someone a better person, if it did, no physicist would help develop nuclear weapons, or no biologist would help develop biological weapons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Character Before Science (Sonnet 2905)

Science doesn't make someone a better person,
if it did, no physicist would help develop
nuclear weapons, or no biologist would
help develop biological weapons.

Science, like religion, follows the command of power,
given enough incentive 99% of the world's scientists
would gladly help wipe out half the world's population -
many have done exactly that in the past, and many continue
to do so in algorithm factories and defense industries.

Which is why, it means nothing to be a scientist,
what's needed is that a good person becomes scientist,
otherwise a scientist is of as much use to the world
as a politician, just like faith is only
as good as the person practicing it.

Quality of a person does not depend on faith,
but quality of faith depends on the person.
Character of a scientist does not depend on science,
but character of science depends on the scientist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Character of a scientist does not depend on science, but character of science depends on the scientist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Science can produce vaccines or gas chambers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Quality of a person does not depend on faith,
but quality of faith depends on the person.
Character of a scientist does not depend on science,
but character of science depends on the scientist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Science doesn't make someone a better person, if it did, no physicist would help develop nuclear weapons, or no biologist would help develop biological weapons. Science, like religion, follows the command of power, given enough incentive 99% of the world's scientists would gladly help wipe out half the world's population. Which is why, what's needed is that a good person becomes scientist, otherwise a scientist is of as much use to the world as a politician.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Anybody can inspire the youth to become scientists, any trustfund white guy or even chatgpt can do that, the point of Naskar is to ignite Servant Scientists, because if a scientist does not burn with the fire of service, they are no better than religious fanatics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The Missing Vector (Naskaristana 2908-2909)

Science can produce vaccines or gas chambers,
religion can initiate soup kitchens or concentration camps.

Bigger than science, bigger than religion,
I'm the missing vector of the equation -
without me your sciences are just spare parts,
and your religions are just dead habits.

I'm the link between matter and mind,
I'm the life between the lines -
I'm the spark that breathes sapiens into slime,
I'm the safe space nestled in time.

I don't make wine out of water,
water is already wine when
you share it with the thirsty -

nor do I walk on water,
for I am the water,
and I take the shape of whichever
community I stand amongst.

STEM counts for nothing,
until you add the prefix of H -
without that H, it's just more dogma,
educated dogma, but dogma no less,

because guess what - Humanity's greatest
atrocities were all caused by educated people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“STEM counts for nothing, until you add the prefix of H - without that H, it's just more dogma, educated dogma, but dogma no less, because guess what - Humanity's greatest atrocities were all caused by educated people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth