Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an… — Theda Skocpol Copy Share Image
The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do. — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators,… — James Murdoch Copy Share Image
The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination." — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the… — Gilbert N. Lewis 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
DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
As a young boy, I was very interested - as I still am - in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
Well if manners maketh man make-up maketh woman.And we don't need a phalanx of behavioural scientists to explain why man judge women… — Kathy Lette Copy Share Image
Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technological civilisation makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I don't think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it's not a matter of scientific decision. If you… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
You can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Outsourcing, information technology revolution, the access to India's human resources, India's pool of scientists. It will help American companies to become leaner,… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow Copy Share Image
The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
Sweden rejected fluoridation in the 1970s, and in this excellent book these three scientists have confirmed the wisdom of that decision. Our… — Arvid Carlsson Copy Share Image
I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person. — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
