Conception Quote by James D. Watson

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just…

— Konrad Lorenz

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

— James D. Watson

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

— Marcello Truzzi

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what…

— Arthur Leonard Schawlow

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

— Max Born

Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have had no…

— Fran Lebowitz

“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

Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.

— Richard P. Feynman

I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming…

— Thabo Mbeki

People have this idea that if you're not brilliant like Einstein, you can't be a scientist. And that's just a myth. He was the…

— Heidi Hammel

Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and…

— Hans Eysenck

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