If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips. — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word. — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them.… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
“Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
I don't view myself as a practitioner of a particular skill or method. I'm constantly looking at what's the most interesting problem… — Erez Lieberman Aiden Copy Share Image
I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single… — John Ziman Copy Share Image
One day scientists will more fully understand the chemistry and neuro-circuitry that differentiates love from lust. I couldn't begin to explain the… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'm bad at thinking about society. I love to make fun of very small aspects. For instance the privacy rules we have… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation . . . I am an infidel… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all,… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
I'm not the "not-working" type. I derive pleasure from my work. Work gives me relaxation too. Every moment I am thinking of… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image