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Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein
Great
Character
Science
People
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Most
Makes
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Intellect
Which
I'm often asked - and occasionally in an accusatory way - 'Are you atheist?' And it's like, 'You know, the only 'ist' I am is a scientist, all right?' I don't associate with movements. I'm not an 'ism.' I just - I think for myself.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Myself
You
Atheist
Think
Way
Only
Like
Know
Occasionally
Am
Scientist
Often
Just
Movements
Asked
Right
Associate
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
Marie Curie
Natural
Impress
Though
He
Mere
Tales
Also
Him
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Scientist
Were
His
Laboratory
Child
Natural Phenomena
Confronting
Technician
Phenomena
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
Right Questions
Gives
He
Answers
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Questions
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Right
I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.
Richard P. Feynman
Attitude
Great
Mind
Value
First
Live
Think
Ought
Must
Vital
Admit
Uncertainty
Student
Know
Great Value
Answers
Scientist
Questions
Different
Which
Acquire
Realize
Then
Actually
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
Impossible
States
Distinguished
Possible
Something
He
Wrong
Almost
Scientist
Very
Elderly
Certainly
Right
Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.
Ellen DeGeneres
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School
Sunday
Important
Single
Christian
Every
Saw
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Sunday School
Week
Part
Most
Most Important Thing
Am
Important Thing
Scientist
Yes
Wall
The Golden Rule
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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
Good
Day
Morning
Science
Every Day
Pet
Before
Young
Breakfast
Research
Every
Good Morning
Hypothesis
Discard
Him
Exercise
Scientist
Keeps
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard P. Feynman
Problems
Looking
Believe
Guy
Scientist
Dumb
Just
Next
Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.
Alan Shepard
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