People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists. — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
A National Database on Autism Research is fostering sharing of data and collaborations. Scientists are also making great strides at the interface… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on… — Aaron D. O'Connell Copy Share Image
“Scientists are sometimes wrong and fisherman are sometimes wrong.” — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“Scientists still do not appear to understand sufficiently that all earth sciences must contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet… — Alfred Wegener Copy Share Image
Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the… — Robert Edwards Copy Share Image
And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Actually, we’re with the United States Army stationed in Germany. My friend Paul comes here about every two to three weeks to… — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion.… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“Think of facts and figures as bricks and cement, and science or scientific understanding as a building. Without the vision of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In 1988, a cave explorer named Véronique Le Guen volunteered for an extreme experiment: to live alone in an underground cavern in… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that… — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory,… — Thomas Marshburn Copy Share Image
Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
The lives of those such as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein are plainly of interest in their own right, as well as… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“And at that age, the only boys I didn’t think were gross were dead scientists – and it’s not like I wanted… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image