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The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

Wilbur Wright

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

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Loren Eiseley

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

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Jacques Cousteau

Ninety-five percent of our children live in poverty, ... It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that they probably don't have computers at home. Most of our children do not have any computer access except at school so they are behind the learning curve of other children.

Jim Edwards

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

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.

Max Planck

We could do the highways now, and it would be a boon to the city. It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out; it's feasible. It's way past its time but it's feasible.

Walter Hayden

They're good as any two guards in the state. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out they can play.

Chris Greene

I'm sad to see that in my own (religious) tradition. I do understand what they're responding to. There are aggressive unbelievers. There are scientists who firmly believe that you can't be a scientist and you can't do science if you are a religious person.

Jeffrey Schloss

To establish a favorable and well-defined brand personality with the consumer the advertiser must be consistent. You can't use a comic approach today and a scientist in a white jacket tomorrow without diffusing and damaging your brand personality.

Morris Hite

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

Lewis Mumford

Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Phyllis Mcginley

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out it all depends on when flu arrives. If it arrives early we may have a problem. If it doesn't, we don't.

Arnold Monto

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand what's going on. Just look out the window, ... There's so much development going on. It's hard to find planners. But it's hard to keep them.

Lois Frankel

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

Ambrose Bierce

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

Peter B. Medawar

Professor Mehta is a very well known scientist, but there are many lesser known scientists to whom this is happening. The bigger issue is important.

Carthage Smith

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any asssertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

It's a fascinating book about what it takes to be a scientist.

Brian Carter

Basically, as an average person, I would have to prove some scientist at Merck or some CEO somewhere had made a determination to hurt me.

Chris Mather

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Antonin Artaud

Intellectual property is a very important part of the economic development equation. We've created dozens of programs to ensure the product born from the mind of a New York scientist or researcher stays right here in New York state.

James Denn

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Henri Poincare

He just nailed it, ... I don't know how he nailed it; that's why he's Steve Martin ... he's a scientist of the heart, or something.

Jason Schwartzman

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

Johnny Ball

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard Feynman

What have we lost? Well, we've lost a scientist who is really concerned about the quality of life for people who live in earthquake country. We have terabytes of information Tony gathered in the '80's and '90's (about earthquakes and land movement). That will be just part of Tony's legacy.

Bill Steele

He truly is a rocket scientist.

Rick Brubaker

To so interpret the language of the act is to extract more sunbeams from cucumbers than did Gulliver's mad scientist.

Tom C. Clark

It was written by a very competent and very sophisticated computer scientist or group of computer scientists who really know what they're doing.

Peter Watkins

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out -- it's just an attack on traditional retirement and medical benefits.

Johnny Walker

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Freeman Dyson

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to take them down and put them back up if you follow the rules.

Alex James

There are guys that know how to do it, and there are guys that don't. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that you don't bump someone when you're in a corner at 180 miles an hour.

Wally Dallenbach

I am on both ends of it; I'm a scientist and artist.

Lee Anne Willson

New Scientist magazine reported that in the future, cars could be powered by hazelnuts. That's encouraging, considering an eight-ounce jar of hazelnuts costs about nine dollars. Yeah, I've got an idea for a car that runs on bald eagle heads and Faberge eggs.

Jimmy Fallon

They're also teaching me a lesson: to try to go beyond the bounds of what I know and what I think is right. It's a good trick for an old artist to teach a new scientist something.

Barbara Berrie

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. The problem is, we still have to exist.

Paul Vogel

It was just about 15 years ago when a scientist at the National Institute on Aging concluded that it was good to be a little overweight rather than normal weight, ... And it was pure rubbish.

Walter Willett

And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

Tycho Brahe

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

Thomas Kuhn

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

Jacques Cousteau

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

Robert Lanza

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out, but we pretty much confirmed it.

Randy Anderson

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

Jacob Bronowski

I thought an awful lot of him as a scientist -- all the things he did and could do. That's why I want to go back and see it again.

Maryellen Flynn

He is the type of scientist that bridges the gap between the science community and the commercial fishing community. He?s equally comfortable working in both arenas.

Brian Doyle

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

Dean Kamen

He's 19 years old, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how he feels about that.

Henry Hall

A scientist would have laughed at you 10 years ago if you said there were going to be hurricanes in Brazil or hurricanes making landfall in Spain.

Thomas Loster

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

He's a scientist. He went there thinking like a scientist. He learned new things and he's going to apply them to people.

Lanny Swerdlow

People with a $120,000 job as a research scientist aren't going to be knocking down doors to make $28,000 a year as a teacher.

Mary Tiede Wilhelmus

I get the best of both worlds. I work as a scientist during the day, and then become a TV presenter during the evening. The working environments are completely different, and 1 thrive on the contrast.

Heather Reid

Being a scientist, I don't want to get everybody excited and say this is all wonderful. But following two small plantings on less than half an acre, this spring we'll find a 40-acre piece and see what happens.

Mike Hackett

[Saying] it doesn't take a rocket scientist ... ratchet up the pressure.

Fred Upton

It's a great loss for Harvard and a great gain for Yale. I came to Harvard in part because of him. He's a wonderful guy and a great scientist.

Ronald Kessler

I think each member of the committee is an outstanding scientist, and each is sincere ... but they're missing the broader view we need to have of climate change.

Roger Pielke

No scientist will sit on (a ship) for that long, reading a book and eating popcorn for the whole time, no way.

Robert D. Ballard

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

Christopher Hampton

The bigger issue here is what is and isn't science. There's no scientist who's going to prove or disprove the existence of God. It's just a different realm.

Joshua Kohn

Darwin himself was a really fascinating person, an adventurer as well as a scientist.

Michael Novacek

Most everyone with any sense knows that all creatures need a suitable place to live. If the places to live are not sufficient to ensure the recovery of the frog, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to predict the consequences.

Robert Stack

It will give them a taste of what a real scientist will do. It's not just a point in time, but it looks at the system in a manner to identify trends.

Christopher Harper

The key to success is having some discipline, ... You don't have to be rocket scientist.

David Caruso

Come in every time you're in D.C. and teach me about the oceans. They didn't do that when I was a scientist in Washington. It's different now. All of a sudden, they've realized that there's more in this for them.

David Wilmot

It's very gratifying that something I've done as a social scientist may make a difference in the world. Us poor academics rarely feel like anything we're doing makes a direct impact.

Valerie Hudson

There's been way too much hyperbole. To get back to any good science you've got to get away from that and get back to the bench, ... I think the field is ripe for some young scientist who doesn't have any cemented views to come in and look at this and paint it with a brand-new brush.

Alan Feduccia

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

Joseph Mccabe

Tom Hanks is a good friend and I'm looking forward to seeing him playing the hero scientist Robert Langdon.

Donny Osmond

Paper costs money...you do not need to be a rocket scientist to understand that up to $3 billion in savings are possible.

Giovanni Bisignani

I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.

Richard Davidson

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Jean Rostand

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to say this looks fishy.

Cindi Canary

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to learn this stuff, and it's not like you have to change your belief systems.

Jon Kabat zinn

Steve Johnson is a 25-year career scientist at the EPA, ... He is committed to doing the sampling and the testing and the cleanup and doing whatever needs to be done.

Eryn Witcher

David Baltimore will go down in history as not only a great scientist but also as one of the great presidents of Caltech.

Eli Broad

He's probably the most famous scientist I'll ever get to meet. It was a privilege.

Edwina Pendarvis

Touring is the only thing I know. I'm not a rocket scientist, what else am I going to do? Chicks, booze, drugs, rock 'n' roll - that's what I know. But the only thing I got left is the rock.

Eddie Money