A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics,… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
Overall, female scientists have fewer resources than male scientists, just as poor people have less access to health care. But if you… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Modern science developed in the context of western religious thought, was nurtured in universities first established for religious reasons, and owes some… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Doctors and scientists, being part of that two-sex culture, have done everything they can to try to force people who are in-between… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake? — James Merrill Copy Share Image
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success.… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
If competition for Kaggle's top talent becomes fierce enough among banks, insurance companies, hedge funds - we hope the world's best data… — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
“The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
“The great masters of modern analysis are Lagrange , Laplace , and Gauss , who were contemporaries. It is interesting to note… — W.W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“To prove to an indignant questioner on the spur of the moment that the work I do was useful seemed a thankless… — A.V. Hill Copy Share Image
Researchers should always consider ethical concerns on scientific research and disclose their data to the public. Scientists also need to discuss issues… — Shinya Yamanaka Copy Share Image
“It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“Until I was twenty I was sure there was a being who could see everything I did and who didn't like most… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
