We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact,… — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer… — Theodore von Karman Copy Share Image
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
In the year 415, the woman scientist Hypatia, head of the legendary Alexandria library, was beaten to death by Christian monks who… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's… — Mitchell A. Wilson Copy Share Image
For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in… — Bernhard Riemann Copy Share Image
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There were no pre-adamic men in the line of Adam. I am not a scientist. I do not profess to know anything… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
I don't think I would ever be a doctor, but the reason I majored in science was because you could become a… — Bill Skarsgard Copy Share Image
What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I was always very curious about what a scientist's life was like when I was young. Of course, when I was young,… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
We found some scientists think that there are basically three emotions. Others went up to 27. Others had 16. Some were in… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
When it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, people say 'Yuck! Why would scientists do… — Pamela Ronald Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, a new report says only 7% of scientists believe in God. That is right. And the reason they gave was… — James Traficant Copy Share Image
Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet … No national law, no national precautions can save the… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
To be with another scientist and make a discovery and share that with a global audience, or working with bear biologists in… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
The longer you garden the better the eye gets, the more tuned to how colors vibrate in different ways and what they… — Marjorie Harris Copy Share Image
As advertising always convinces the sponsor even more than the public, the scientists have become sold, and remain sold, on the idea… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Scientists have determined that the most irritating sound to the human ear is the sound of a knife cutting a glass bottle.… — Peter Sagal 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 greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Some scientists find, or so it seems, that they get their best ideas when smoking; others by drinking coffee or whisky. Thus… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
There's not a rocket scientist, not a doctor, not an accountant that 30 years in goes, "Oh, now I'm getting it. Now… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image