People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature,… — Nalini Nadkarni Copy Share Image
We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
To the extent that the scientist's capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The second half of the 20th century was a golden age of molecular biology, and it was one of the golden ages… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
There is no last word in research, and that includes climate research. It's never the truth that scientists offer, but only our… — Hans von Storch Copy Share Image
If two scientists are giving their papers at a symposium, and one of them is just naturally better at talking to the… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,500 scientists) has provided the world community with first class… — Klaus Topfer Copy Share Image
Americans, too many of them, take themselves too seriously. You're going to get rapped - by the viewers, by the sponsors and… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Now every girl is expected to have Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong.… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
There were many stages to the Atlantean civilization. During the later stages, scientists became involved with advanced particle physics. In particular they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until… — Warren Ellis 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
There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to complain about a lack of imagination in scientists when their failure is simply that they cannot make… — Milton A. Rothman Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The scientific analysis that is supposed to provide our Governor the facts and information he needs to make a crucial decision was… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming. They have a… — Ross Gelbspan Copy Share Image
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
Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
“Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow.… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
For the first time ever, women are scoring higher than men on IQ tests. Scientists say it has something to do with… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know -… — Brian Schmidt Copy Share Image
In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no… — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image