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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so… — Antonin Artaud
Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part of… — Robert K. Merton
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.… — Jacob Bronowski
Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to… — John F. Kennedy
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression. — Rudolph Rummel
Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing the mind but… — Dalai Lama
At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge… — Joseph Rotblat
What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether. — Jeremy Rifkin
And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the… — George Stigler
Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the… — Tony Snow
Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma… — Judith Rodin
Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who… — John Charles Polanyi
The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated… — John Barth
I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe; it would make… — John N. Bahcall
[The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts, though they may… — Robert Watson-Watt
We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or later… — John Desmond Bernal
Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild… — Joe Meno
Any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or piffling answers. It… — Peter Medawar
No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. ... Good scientists study the most important problems… — Peter Medawar
It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit… — Richard P. Feynman
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You… — Albert Einstein
Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science."… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and most successful confidence… — Vernon Coleman
There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still more… — Robert Watson-Watt
DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed to bad nutrition.… — T. Colin Campbell

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