#scientist

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills. ↗

— Terri Windling

#i #math #scientist #skills #wanted

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#brooklyn #build #buy #people #scientists

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#going #i #i came #ibm #list

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#better #between #book #dalai #dalai lama

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#because #bitter #did #died #fact

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#becoming #dreamed #ever #general #i

Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it. ↗

— Haldan Keffer Hartline

#care #contribution #culture #deeply #place

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#been #farmers #fighting #food #front

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

#i #i think #institutions #leaders #practising

We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

#bit #community #either #good #good thing