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
That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
In the 1980s a small group of individuals became concerned about the Earth's temperature and what it might do in the future.… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
“It’s not that children are little scientists — it’s that scientists are big children. Scientists actually are the few people who as… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I think Yandex is something in between two different cultures. One originated from the old Soviet culture of the scientific institute. It… — Arkady Volozh Copy Share Image
I think it's very common that scientists or technical people have an artistic side. Sometimes they are very accomplished musicians. Sometimes they… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from 'real' work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly… — Michael Nielsen Copy Share Image
“the education of professional scientists is often just as narrowly focused as the education of any other group of professionals, and scientists… — Robert M. Hazen Copy Share Image
“Doctors, professors, and scientists were unknowingly assimilating incorrect or half-true information in order to regurgitate it to the populace. Because the populace… — Jasun Ether 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
Mr. Hillaire Belloc has pointed out that science has changed greatly, and for the worse, since it became popular. Some hundred years… — Anthony Standen 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
In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard,… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search… — Stanford Moore Copy Share Image
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
They're a lot of great scientists and their mission is to protect people. It's the Environmental Protection Agency, but it's really a… — Josh Fox 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
We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Things were different in the past. People idolized thinkers, philosophers, artists and scientists. Today the world admires CEOs, businessmen and managers. Basically,… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently,… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem.… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
When you're in a room with twenty people who've all got the True Theory of the universe, it's difficult to know what… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their… — Rick Perry 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
The government employs scientists of many varieties in technical capacities, from estimating the environmental toxicity of a chemical to the structural soundness… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
When top scientists and psychologists talk about what's important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
