I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions. — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities. — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
“ “Bad news. The Egyptians have left Bogotá on one of six American Airlines’ flights. Steve, I lost them.” — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
“Life is funny that way. Sometimes the dumbest thing you do turns out to be the smartest.” — Robyn Mundell Copy Share Image
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips. — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
“Wish me good luck, please,” I whisper. “On one condition,” Philemone says. “Remember, what you call luck is the meeting of opportunity… — Robyn Mundell Copy Share Image
“I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
How fantastic that the American ingenuity of NASA scientists got us to Mars. It makes me proud to be an American. I… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
“On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: “In many cases… — James Burke Copy Share Image
They're a lot of great scientists and their mission is to protect people. It's the Environmental Protection Agency, but it's really a… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
This doesn't mean that they commit themselves to the view that this is all there is. Many scientists (including me) think that… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“Until I was twenty I was sure there was a being who could see everything I did and who didn't like most… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“Every now and then, I’m lucky enough to teach a kindergarten or first-grade class. Many of these children are natural-born scientists -… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Scientists still do not appear to understand sufficiently that all earth sciences must contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet… — Alfred Wegener Copy Share Image
“Why do scientists never debate philosophers? It’s because they know they would be destroyed in argument, when they have to actually clarify… — Joe Dixon Copy Share Image
“Those whom nature destined to make her disciples have no need of teachers. Bacon , Descartes , Newton — these tutors of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
“While the Soviets simply arrested and deported some of the scientists – typically taking their families along to serve both as hostages… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them. — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
Scientists say the universe is made up of protons, neutrons and electrons. They forgot to mention Morons. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
