We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the… — Chien-Shiung Wu Copy Share Image
Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
FBI laboratory scientists said Sunday they have determined that the anthrax mailed to Senate offices last fall was fresh. They say it's… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be… — Carlo Rubbia Copy Share Image
It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of scientists, well, that gets… — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There's a lot of scientific data that I found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
When I talk about the pain and hardship of a scientist's life, I'm speaking of more than existential angst. Galileo's work was… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
Science attacks our most cherished opinions. Opinions which come straight from our collective gut. Oh, wait, according to gastroenterologists, the only thing… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts,… — John Forbes Nash Copy Share Image
I understand the arguments about how the billions of dollars spent to put men on the moon could have been used to… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“because no doctor or scientist of any sort, no one at all, really knows much of anything in the grand scheme of… — Anonymous 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
As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite… — Cole Porter 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
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.… — Charles Sanders Peirce 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
Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in "the simplest explanation is probably correct," also known as Occam's razor), but we should not… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons… — Hans Bethe Copy Share Image
And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
You've got the oil companies fighting Pope Francis. Fighting the scientists of the world. Fighting the governor of California. They are engaged… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
One contribution scientists can and should make is to be clear and explicit about the limits of scientific understanding, a matter that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
A scientist works largely by intuition. Given enough experience, a scientist examining a problem can leap to an intuition as to what… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around.… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
