Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
How fantastic that the American ingenuity of NASA scientists got us to Mars. It makes me proud to be an American. I… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
“Those whom nature destined to make her disciples have no need of teachers. Bacon , Descartes , Newton — these tutors of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
One thing I can take credit for, along with the rest of show business, is when the red ribbons were out, we… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Some scientists think it may be possible to capture a wormhole and enlarge it many trillions of times to make it big… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: “In many cases… — James Burke Copy Share Image
The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
It's important that everyone realizes how much scientists still don't know. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“The scientific community has lost its original sense of responsibility.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
Climate change is the 800-pound gorilla in the living room that the media dances around. But in the scientific community, it's a… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
“But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism... But we shouldn't… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Scientists tend to build a reputation on refuting the theories of those who have gone before. Yet, whatever we hypothesize, observe, measure… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image