A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify. — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line....… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it. — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“There is an inexplicable sense of relief in being proven wrong, which perhaps can only be realized by either a scientist or… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God. — George Coyne Copy Share Image
A discussion between Haldane and a friend began to take a predictable turn. The friend said with a sigh, 'It's no use… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
Scientists who study brain-wave activity found that the longer one watches television, the more likely the brain will slip into "alpha" level:… — Jerry Mander Copy Share Image
Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers. — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
