Competent Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

There are lots of excellent analysts out there. John Holdren at the Harvard Kennedy School, who was just president of the American Association for…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

“people overestimate the relative difficulty of science and engineering, because the challenges of those fields are obvious”

— Peter Thiel

If you'd got a very conservative Republican in power, they might not be happy about some of the scientific research going on, because it…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial…

— Johnny Ball

It's always interesting to bring scientists together, because they typically have very polarized views.

— Paul Allen

What shocks me is people who have no expertise championing a view that runs counter to the mainstream scientific consensus.

— Simon Singh

The scientists actually have suggested things that ambitious. There are good studies coming out of Stanford, Mark Jacobson for example and others, showing how…

— Jill Stein

Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out…

— David Suzuki

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

— Max Planck

Ever since Sir Isaac Newton's times, scientists have worked in the same sort of way: They show a great respect for experiment and observation,…

— Paul Nurse

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that…

— Walter Gilbert

“People confuse science and scientists. Science is great, but individual scientists are dangerous. They are human; they are marred by the biases humans have.…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb