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“I must say I never thought about it as a child, you know. I was thinking more about becoming a scientist. That was my dream as a child. I wanted to be an astronaut.”
Natacha Muziramakenga (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being creative is a huge part of being a good scientist. You need to find new ways to look at old problems and you must be able to design experiments that reveal new information”
Sally Archibald wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In other words, a scientist needs vision.”
Sally Archibald wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a scientist, engineer and passionate advocate for women in the field, I have advocated and worked across various STEM/NFP organisations to create change.”
Morley Muse wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the time, my dad wanted me to be a medical doctor, but Dr Eichenbaum jokingly said that I would waste my brain in medical school and that she would make me a scientist”
Pascale Guiton wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I kind of saw myself as being a scientist in a lab and developing something new and novel helping deploy it as part of a larger company”
Etosha Cave wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I recall hearing vivid accounts by the late Dr M S du Toit, an eminent soil scientist who later became Secretary for Agriculture.”
Joan S. Whitmore (1922–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whatever seasonings you put in it, it will just sop it right up. So, if you season it with racism, it will become racist. It’s incumbent upon me as a scientist to choose my marinade differently … to season it with multiplicity, season it with different thoughts, season it with change.”
Paris Adkins-Jackson wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Students coming in for a data scientist course are not looking for a real narrow technical focus but a broader in interdisciplinary approach.”
Shlomo Argamon (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I figured that I’d become a great scientist and then maybe, maybe, maybe in the future I’ll be able to apply, if I establish myself well enough”
Jeanette Epps (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This was a life-changing experience for me as it is every scientist’s dream to go to CERN. The competition for spaces is too high and everyone from Professors to Doctors want to go there. To be there makes one hungry for knowledge and success and it remains one of my greatest achievements. I learned a lot there.”
Senamile Masango (1987–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a theoretical computer scientist, and have worked on computational complexity, algorithms, cryptography, quantum computing.”
Boaz Barak wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I know that I have the ability to organize data. Maybe it’s related to my time spent as the Chief Scientist of Israel, or my ability to organize things, and coordinate research projects with State-approved budgets. When I volunteered at the Committee for National Infrastructure, I discovered that I can do many things that others can’t.”
Orna Berry (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So while I was a research scientist at Facebook AI Research, I was working on something called reinforcement learning mostly for like robotics, but that’s one of the sort of like essential piece for ChatGPT, like a relationship. And so Aravind and I were, happened to work on the very similar problems.”
Denis Yarats wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One interesting experience I had as a computer scientist occurred when the Motion Picture Association filed a lawsuit to suppress publication of computer code for decrypting DVD movies.”
David S. Touretzky (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We... need to look at systems after the fact. We have to audit them and say, "How is this working out?" ...[W]e have to make the job of the scientist... easy. We have to force the companies to give us the data that we need... [e.g.,] "Are these systems discriminating against people in employment?" ...[T]he companies don't want to share that, but we have to make them...”
Gary Marcus (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m a mother, grandmother, scientist, a woman of faith, and now, president”
Claudia Sheinbaum (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I realized how much research and innovation are intertwined. Through my doctoral journey, I was inspired to increase my impact in innovation; thus, I consider myself a computer scientist who is a researcher, educator and mentor.”
Chao Mbogo wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would say that my role as a scientist is really about my passion and purpose for the world and for giving back to the world.”
Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One thing I would like to mention here is that the Egyptian MAB National Committee has now been doing the same as the MAB International Coordinating Council. We are now issuing a young scientist award at the national level. It includes a 5000 EGP grant.”
Boshra Salem (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Among the tasks that life as a photographer had set me, a portrait of Albert Einstein had always seemed a 'must'—not only because this greatest refugee of our century has been accounted by all the world (except his homeland) as the outstanding scientist since Newton, but because his face, in all its rough grandeur, invited and challenged the camera.”
Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Studies of human behavior in different societies have helped the social scientist understand the relations between culture and personality and have helped him shake free his hypotheses about human behavior from particular sets of cultural biases. These points are as important in studying middle age and aging as in studying child development.”
Bernice Neugarten (1916–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I could never be a Minimalist artist: I am interested in corrupting fine art with everything I wish for. I want adventure and to feel the same sense of command that I imagine an explorer or a scientist would––like a visitor trespassing”
Rina Banerjee (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In music, the great essential after creation itself is communication through performance...it is of immediate and primary importance to the creator. For the composer, if he is to develop, must hear his own works. An orchestra composer without an orchestra is like a scientist without his laboratory or a dramatist without his stage or actors.”
Howard Hanson (1896–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Two years in. No longer 7000 miles apart. Without a 16 hour time difference. A lifetime of adventures. But really, who’s counting… Happy wedding anniversary to us, My Scientist. ✨ #LoviGoesFullMonty,”
Lovi Poe (born 1989) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lovi Poe shares how she kept up with a busy schedule while being pregnant, Nikka Sabio, Push Team 2 September 2025.
“I see my role as one primarily of mentorship. To pass on my knowledge and experience to younger scientists – to share my passion for the fungi and for research with others that might build on what I have been privileged to do – not only via this award – but linked to my career as a scientist.”
Mike Wingfield (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fairy tales and more fairy tales. [in response to a mother who wanted her son to become a scientist and asked Einstein what reading material to give him]”
Albert Einstein (disputed) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Found in Montana Libraries: Volumes 8-14 (1954), p. cxxx. The story is given as follows: "In the current New Mexico Library Bulletin, Elizabeth Margulis tells a story of a woman who was a personal friend of the late dea…
“He W.E.B. Du Bois was at once a scientist in his skillful use of history as a tool for comprehending the present, and a prophet in the application of his gift for analyzing the present as an indicator of the future. Because he lived both firmly entrenched within his time and decades ahead of it, the light of his wisdom, like that of his great love for humanity, is one that never diminishes.”
Aberjhani (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, it was true. ... True, he thought, but no one ever got the chance to know it. Oh, they knew it was something, but it couldn’t be that — not that. That was imagination, that was superstition, there was no such thing as that. And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.”
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've always considered myself an offbeat writer. Out here in California they like to categorize, so I'm a science fiction writer. I wrote science fiction to break into the writing business. My love is fantasy. I wrote one of my early novels in four days sitting in a closet which I'd converted into an office, using an old Smith-Corona that my parents had given me for Christmas when I was 12.”
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reading literature can greatly enhance the study of science. If science is all one focuses, the mind will grow very mechanical. We are only fully human when we possess not only intelligence but also emotion and sensitivity. Literature is the oil that greases the wheels of the mind.”
Daisaku Ikeda (1928–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Understand once again that the time of changes of continents is approaching. Maitreya is coming, in the vanguard of science, addressing its new frontiers. All the problems of science and of the evolution of all that exists are of concern to the Teacher.”
Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only the science of the Absolute gives meaning and discipline to the science of the relative.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A new fundamental science, pure phenomenology, has developed within philosophy: This is a science of a thoroughly new type and endless scope. It is inferior in methodological rigor to none of the modern sciences. All philosophical disciplines are rooted in pure phenomenology, through whose development, and through it alone, they obtain their proper force.”
Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid — and merits universal acceptance — only if it can be independently verified. The impersonal rigor of the method means it is utterly apolitical. A truth in science is verifiable whether you are black or white, male or female, old or young. It's verifiable whether you like the results of a study, or you don't.”
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Testimony before the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (28 September 2005)
“I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.”
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once you abandon strict adherence to what science tells us, once you start arranging the truth in a press conference, then anything is possible. In one context, maybe you will get some mobilization against nuclear war. But in another context, you get Lysenkoism. In another, you get Nazi euthanasia. The danger is always there, if you subvert science to political ends.”
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fact is that the present structure of science is entrepreneurial, with individual investigative teams vying for funding from organizations that all too often have a clear stake in the outcome of the research—or appear to, which may be just as bad. This is not healthy for science.”
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.”
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For a consistent naturalist science can only be a refinement of animal exploration, a practice humans have devised for finding their way in the bit of the universe in which they have so far survived. Instead of thinking of science as a law-seeking activity, we can think of it as a tool humans use to cope with a world they will never understand.”
John Gray (philosopher) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is not distinguished from myth by science being literally true and myth only a type of poetic analogy. While their aims are different, both are composed of symbols we use to deal with a slippery world.”
John Gray (philosopher) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is not science. It's an art, like... art, in a way.”
John Hodgman (born 1971) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: October 18, 2007
“If there is ever conflict between Science and Scripture, the problem must be on the science side.”
Ray Comfort (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.”
Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For many centuries before modern science, and for the first two and a half centuries of modern science, the division of reality into matter and light seemed self-evident. ...As long as the separation between the massive and the massless persisted, a unified description of the physical world could not be achieved.”
Frank Wilczek (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A contemporary man who has not participated intimately in actual work in science is, in my opinion, not a modern man. I believe that this experience in science should come early in the life of all of our pupils.”
Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not easy to devise a cure for such a state of things (the declining taste for science). The most obvious remedy is to provide the educated classes with a series of works on popular and practical science, freed from mathematical symbols and technical terms, written in simple and perspicuous language, and illustrated by facts and experiments which are level to the capacity of ordinary minds.”
David Brewster (1781–1868) first seen 1831 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in a review of William Herschel's A Treatise on Sound, Quarterly Review, Vol. 44, No. 88 (January-February 1831), p. 476.
“Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition.”
Nicola Cabibbo (1935–2010) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the Holy Father, in The cultural values of science, The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Scripta Varia 105 (8-11 November 2002), page xiv
“Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.”
Dara Ó Briain (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You live in an age that is dominated by science and engineering. ...Thus if you wish to be effective in the world and to achieve the things that you want, it is necessary to understand both science and engineering (and those require mathematics).”
Richard Hamming (1915–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source