Civilization Quote by James Burke

Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.

— Leo Szilard

“On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: “In many cases there are…

— James Burke

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level

— Brian Greene

“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

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

— John Charles Polanyi

Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet…

— Kenneth R. Miller

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Muzzling our leading scientists benefits no one.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to cure cancer.'…

— Martin Rees

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a group of…

— Brian Skerry

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