Scientists Quotes
1148 quotes by 791 authors
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Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists.
— Michael Nielsen
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If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not…
— Michael Nielsen
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Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada,…
— Michael Specter
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A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it was reminiscent of…
— Seth Shostak
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Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang…
— Seth Shostak
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In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems for them. So,…
— Seth Shostak
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
— Noam Chomsky
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I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.
— Don Rickles
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I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them to talk to…
— Eric Kandel
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While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge, the…
— Stanley B. Prusiner
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People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling them that only…
— Stanley B. Prusiner
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From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand the unknown, so…
— Stanley B. Prusiner
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It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore your…
— Stanley B. Prusiner
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The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which…
— Charles H. Townes
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We are determined to provide for the nuclear fuel of such plants inside the country, at the hands of local Iranian scientists. We are going…
— Hassan Rouhani
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I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark…
— Kevin Hart
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Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
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Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.
— Virginia Postrel
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The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted. It mutates furiously, it has decoys to evade the immune system, it…
— Seth Berkley
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The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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