Distinguished Quote by Isaac Asimov

“Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it…

— Arthur C. Clarke

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.

— Carl Hart

“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

If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the…

— Cormac McCarthy

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started being so…

— Hanya Yanagihara

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

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter…

— Michael Crichton

Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus which is the business of politics. What is relevant is…

— Timothy R Minnich

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson