Backgrounds Quote by David Chalmers

Languages are the keys of science.

— Jean de la Bruyere

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to…

— Nicholas Stern

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

— Philip Emeagwali

I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists.

— Hope Jahren

You make sure you broaden yourself and have a good solid background in many different things. That's what you need to be a good…

— Heidi Hammel

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much…

— Kathryn Schulz

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of…

— Alan Alda

I was a scientist. I know where the joy lies. It is wonderful finding a like-minded scientist and delving deep into the language that…

— Randy Olson

“Intense study of a particular field of science does not necessarily make one scientifically literate. Indeed, it has been our experience that working scientists…

— Robert M. Hazen

People have asked me whether I have a science background. No, but I have a great curiosity about the kinds of things we do…

— Peter Graves

I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

— Bernard Beckett

One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language

— Louis Pasteur