I'm not just a scientist.

It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it…

— Carl Sagan

I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is a tribute…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces…

— Erich Fromm

If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a…

— Finley Peter Dunne

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

— Richard Dawkins

As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely we could…

— Daniel Everett

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As…

— Larry Page

We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust…

— I. A. Richards

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman

... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The literature Nobel laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.A scientist cannot…

— Sune Bergstrom