Last time Quote by Edward O. Wilson

“There is no dispute between me and Richard Dawkins and there never has been, because he’s a journalist, and journalists are people that report…

— Edward O. Wilson

“Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off. Note : Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine,…

— Richard Dawkins

“The most extensive and sustained exploration of the world, and the mightiest monument of collective wondering, is, of course, science. Richard Dawkins speaks of…

— Raymond Tallis

I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing in conflict…

— Richard Dawkins

“Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing”

— Konrad Lorenz

“Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an…

— Daniel Gardner

“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

“But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and unknown in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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

“the rigorously impersonal view of science might one day appear as having been a temporarily useful eccentricity rather than the definitively triumphant position which…

— William James

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they…

— Jacob Bronowski