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scientist

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One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.

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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

A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others. Albert Einstein

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. Jacques-Yves Cousteau

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. Vladimir Nabokov

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions. Claude Lévi-Strauss

The mistake of the scientist leads to mistakes by many people. Arabic Proverb

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