If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no… — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know -… — Brian Schmidt Copy Share Image
Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
People have this idea that if you're not brilliant like Einstein, you can't be a scientist. And that's just a myth. He… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
The truth is that once you get down on the trading floor, you find that the traders come from all walks of… — Linda Bradford Raschke Copy Share Image
How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency-or, rather, Agency-must be involved. Is it possible that… — George Greenstein Copy Share Image
I have never seen myself as an alarmist but rather as a scientist with a critical viewpoint, and in that sense I… — Lennart Bengtsson Copy Share Image
Mr. John Coleman, who invented the Weather Channel, represents over 30,000 scientists who cannot get their voices heard on the main stream… — Peter DeGraaf Copy Share Image
And So, I Was Not A Military Test Pilot, But As Soon As NASA Expressed An Interest In Flying Scientists & People… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints,… — Henry F. Schaefer, III Copy Share Image
...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will… — Ruth Hubbard Copy Share Image
The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist - a… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness,… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
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