The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
America's popular heroes have seldom been its great thinkers, and even less its scientists. The success of TV's 'Big Bang Theory,' which… — Seth Shostak 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
If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us. — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature,… — Nalini Nadkarni Copy Share Image
I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
This doesn't mean that they commit themselves to the view that this is all there is. Many scientists (including me) think that… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
“It is as if the memory of an entire civilisation and its contribution to the sum of knowledge has been virtually wiped… — Ehsan Masood Copy Share Image
“Intense study of a particular field of science does not necessarily make one scientifically literate. Indeed, it has been our experience that… — Robert M. Hazen Copy Share Image
I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them… — Eric Kandel 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
There can sometimes be this fear among laypeople: 'I don't understand everything in science perfectly, so I just can't say anything about… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
“Lots of things are mystries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Science progresses not because scientists as a whole are passionately open-minded but because different scientists are passionately closed-minded about different things. — Henry H. Bauer 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 am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because… — Lennart Nilsson Copy Share Image
“Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“I have never encountered scientists who admit the simple truth: Our scientific achievements have repeatedly jeopardized humanity.” — Yuval Kanev, Helpless Earth: Reckless Science Copy Share Image
I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom. — Max Born Copy Share Image
It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and… — Mitch Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the… — Martin Rees 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
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
“Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that… — Richard M. Weaver 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