I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What do I do? (Jeff) Well, not to insult a man who looks like a rocket scientist in comparison to you, but…run,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death -- though they say it's virtually impossible… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
My transition from scientist to entrepreneur? Some would say that I still haven't made that transition. — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
“For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to venture out into… — Marcus du Sautoy 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
The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences… — Otto Scharmer Copy Share Image
The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two.… — Beatrice Wood 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 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
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
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Mr. Hillaire Belloc has pointed out that science has changed greatly, and for the worse, since it became popular. Some hundred years… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
If I weren't a Christian Scientist, and I saw "Trog" advertised on a marquee across the street, I'd think I'd contemplate suicide. — Joan Crawford Copy Share Image
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box. — Roland Joffe Copy Share Image
A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and… — Fiona Wood Copy Share Image
“Religion has a fanaticism problem - center religion on metaphor, and problem solved. Science has a freezing problem - center science on… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code). — Eric Lander Copy Share Image
“Every time a scientist publishes a good piece of work, she helps to maintain and raise the standards for what is true.… — Deborah M. Gordon Copy Share Image
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image