Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I don't think that they have many of the scientists who were involved in the weapons program to talk to at this… — Ahmed Chalabi Copy Share Image
Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work… — Nathaniel Rich Copy Share Image
Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too. — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
“Hey, I wonder what the public would say if they knew two queer scientists were the ones trying to explain human sexuality… — S.L. Huang Copy Share Image
The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't… — Robert O. Becker Copy Share Image
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“People want to explore, we want to press our capacities to their limits, we want to appreciate what we can. But the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I grew up, scientists were anti-social people who worked in basements and wore coats and worked with bunson burners, and now… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
Doctors and scientists, being part of that two-sex culture, have done everything they can to try to force people who are in-between… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory,… — Thomas Marshburn Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“And at that age, the only boys I didn’t think were gross were dead scientists – and it’s not like I wanted… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
“Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen. [Flanagan's… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because… — Lennart Nilsson Copy Share Image
“Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
Science progresses not because scientists as a whole are passionately open-minded but because different scientists are passionately closed-minded about different things. — Henry H. Bauer Copy Share Image
“Lots of things are mystries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
There can sometimes be this fear among laypeople: 'I don't understand everything in science perfectly, so I just can't say anything about… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and… — Mitch Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom. — Max Born Copy Share Image
It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be… — Katharine Hayhoe 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
And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“I have never encountered scientists who admit the simple truth: Our scientific achievements have repeatedly jeopardized humanity.” — Yuval Kanev, Helpless Earth: Reckless Science Copy Share Image
“Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a true religious person a… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“Results for "It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians” — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
In the past 20 years scientists from very diverse disciplines - anthropologists, archaeologists, sociologists, psychologists - have all moved to a much… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
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