Bits Quote by George Coyne

Scientists blame the audience for being too stupid, shallow, or lazy to understand. There has been a fascinating debate in the blogosphere lately about…

— Mark Powell

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some…

— Martin Rees

“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

It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of scientists, well, that gets scientists worried.…

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts…

— Richard Rhodes

Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to…

— Lee Smolin

“we shouldn’t reshape our science just to avoid confusing the public”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.

— Kitty Ferguson

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to…

— Nelly Ben Hayoun

Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors…

— Seth Shostak

I think that anybody who thinks science is going to explain everything in biological systems, or in physical cosmology, et cetera, is actually mistaken,…

— George Coyne