Let's face it. How often do you see an Asian face in films and television? They are practically invisible. Now and then,… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“ His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“The spirit is one of the most neglected parts of man by doctors and scientists around the world. Yet, it is as… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Back in 1792, Dr. Benjamin Banneker, the famed African-American inventor and scientist in Washington, proposed a Department of Peace for the new… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson 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
Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
In this world, perfection is an illusion. Reagrdless of all those who utter the contrary, this is the reality. Obviously mediocre fools… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
In the culture of America, in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. And in this culture, we have two obsessions,… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
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
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
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