Deaf Quote by James M. Barrie

“Scientists were the embodiment of this new-fangled sobriety—impartial, businesslike, colorless, and reliable. Or so people assumed. For in actual practice, it was their supposed…

— David Van Reybrouck

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

— Henry David Thoreau

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full…

— W. H. Auden

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

— James D. Watson

“I have never encountered scientists who admit the simple truth: Our scientific achievements have repeatedly jeopardized humanity.”

— Yuval Kanev, Helpless Earth: Reckless Science

The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying "Why should…

— Linus Pauling

Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded…

— Martin Gardner

“I hear them marvel at my work--my indignant science. I hear them call out in fear of what they see. And there are some…

— E.B. Hudspeth

If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in…

— Serge Lang

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full…

— W. H. Auden

“The motives behind scientism are culturally significant. They have been mixed, as usual: genuine curiosity in search of truth; the rage for certainty and…

— Jacques Barzun

The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world…

— Lewis Wolpert