Expectations Quote by Heidi Hammel

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.

— Marcello Truzzi

In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others…

— Nathaniel Rich

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

— Albert Einstein

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great…

— Ann Druyan

“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

Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the…

— James P. Hogan

Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

— Cyril Ponnamperuma

It has always appalled me that really bright scientists almost all work in the most competitive fields, the ones in which they are making…

— Aubrey de Grey

Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are…

— Peter Medawar

Many of my friends are scientists.

— Eileen Pollack

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them.…

— Stephen Fry