Scientists Quotes

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Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one… — James P. Hogan
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are… — Mary Midgley
It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God. — Louis Agassiz
Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and… — Fiona Wood
I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track that nobody has walked down… — Suzanne Cory
The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have displayed that dataset. — John Holdren
With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome obstacles to taking these [hydrogen fuel cell] cars from laboratory to showroom, so that… — George W. Bush
Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may have tipped the… — Andrew Revkin
...the debate among the scientists if over. There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. There is no more scientific debate among serious… — Al Gore
If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy… — Nicholas Stern
The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small… — Al Gore
Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are… — David Suzuki
Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by… — Carl Sagan
We need a global approach to this from all sides. We need to educate people, we need the scientists to create new technologies, we need… — Isabel Allende
Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team's all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the… — Jack Ma
The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying "Why should I… — Linus Pauling
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant… — Martin Gardner
My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the… — Carl Sagan
Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory. — J. David Lewis-Williams
In your body, there exists a subtle current of electricity, very subtle. But the subtler it is, the deeper it goes. It is not very… — Rajneesh

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