Inspirational Quote by David M. Knight

“Scientists are like children: They always want to know everything, they all ask too many questions, and they never follow orders to the letter.”

— Sylvain Neuvel

“Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should…

— Michael Crichton

“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and…

— Yann Martel

“Having spent all my life among academics, I can tell you that hearing how wrong they area is about as high on their priority…

— Frans de Waal

“When you’re a scientist, your late twenties are so critical. If you don’t publish something big by thirty, they put you out to pasture.”

— Blake Crouch

“It’s not that children are little scientists — it’s that scientists are big children. Scientists actually are the few people who as adults get…

— Alison Gopnik

“Someone who believes everything he is told simply can't be a scientist, but someone who believes nothing will wind up in jail or prematurely…

— Luis Alvarez

“Science, I am told, is making great strides, experimenting, groping after things which no sane man has ever dreamed of before – without being…

— Walter de la Mare

“We are living in an age in which scientific advances give us new opportunities to live. Seize them.”

— Jessica Queller

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

“True, science has conquered many diseases, broken the genetic code, and even placed human beings on the moon, and yet when a man of…

— Woody Allen