The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer. — Bjork Copy Share Image
[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody can prepare on a physical level. It isn't possible to prepare for what is about to happen. The… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
[I want] a one-armed scientist ... [Who would not qualify his advice with 'on the other hand...'] — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
I guess economists, it’s a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field, — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some,… — Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Copy Share Image
There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That's a legacy that… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
I would love to see music reinstated as an essential part of schooling. The culture that it brings; the knowledge that it… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
We have to learn how scientists arrive at decisions. Once you use the scientific method, it doesn't mean that your decisions will… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented: That is not even wrong. — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
While we may continue to use the words smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may persist for certain purposes, the monopoly… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
How scientists go about their job: and it's a process, it's a question of asking questions, respecting observation, respecting experiment, having tentative… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
Scientists should be doing a better job of guarding their own reputations and of the general scientific community. — Michael F. Jacobson Copy Share Image
I was always a mad scientist type - an inventor and just a generally inventive person, and that has remained the same.… — Sam Lamott Copy Share Image
When a scientist says he believes the Bible--that doesnt give me anymore more faith in the Bible that gives me more faith… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the… — Albert Sabin Copy Share Image
I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is… — Hans Morgenthau Copy Share Image
Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't… — Robert O. Becker Copy Share Image
Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining… — Vassily Ivanchuk Copy Share Image
Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the scientist or journalist is to convey the context. If you're talking about the Arctic Sea ice, you have… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image