What is the most quoted phrase of scientists?

[BioWizard]

One of my most frequently blurted exclamations is: Holy shitballs!

Mine is close, s/shitballs/shitsnacks. I caught it from a show called Archer, and it just stuck. Not proud of it.

(sorry moderators, feel free to trash my post if this isn't appropriate)

[Faradave]

"Further research is needed." - If they're research scientists (as I was).

[BioWizard]

"Further research is needed." - If they're research scientists (as I was).

And they'll have an answer within 5-10 years - aka 1-2 funding cycles ;)

[Watson]

I thought of that first. I should have told some body, besides the cat.

[wolfhnd]

When faced with relentless people determined to inject some irrelevant data into a discussion I dismissively say

"whatever"

So much so that at my retirement I was presented a framed piece of paper with the word whatever printed on it.

[Watson]

That's what the cat said.

[TaliaAS]

I say 'Well that doesn't seem right,' and 'What the hell just happened?' often.

[TheVat]

"Let me put this another way...."

[Hendrick Laursen]

Either I'll find a way, or shall make one!

[Eclogite]

"Why?"

[BadgerJelly]

"Oooops!"

[Watson]

That can't be.

[TheVat]

"The year which has passed...has not, indeed, been marked by any of those striking discoveries which at once revolutionize...the department of science on which they bear...."

-- Thomas Bell, president of the Linnean Society, in a speech to the Society a few months after the presentation at the Society of abstracts and papers by Alfred Wallace and Charles Darwin concerning their new theory of the transmutation of species by the process of natural selection.

[Dave_Oblad]

Hi all,

The OP asks not the most Frequent Phrase but the most Quoted Phrase.

Thus my Favorite is:

Dead Chemist: "I drank what?"

Or another is:

Manager: "I can't help but be concerned when I see everyone running out of the Lab."

Best Wishes All,
Dave :^)