When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Every time a scientist publishes a good piece of work, she helps to maintain and raise the standards for what is true.… — Deborah M. Gordon Copy Share Image
One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is… — Hans Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you.” — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray! — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's… — Mitchell A. Wilson Copy Share Image
For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
In the year 415, the woman scientist Hypatia, head of the legendary Alexandria library, was beaten to death by Christian monks who… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
I was always very curious about what a scientist's life was like when I was young. Of course, when I was young,… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
When you look at the way the pyramids are made, with many chambers that are hermetically sealed, they would have to be… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
In your body, there exists a subtle current of electricity, very subtle. But the subtler it is, the deeper it goes. It… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Some of the most intriguing new research is in the area of extreme weather events and rainfall. A recent study by German… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know how to play a more sophisticated role than the one that I have played… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“He’s a scientist. He’s never cried. He flips through Googled image searches of burn victims while he touches himself.” — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe. — Marcello Truzzi Copy Share Image
Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system. — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Scientists say they have developed a car that can run on water. The only catch is, the water has to come from… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I'm not a scientist. What I find interesting about my work is how, as a designer, I sit between science and the… — Suzanne Lee Copy Share Image