Alas Quote by Jared Diamond

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

— Bill Bryson

There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

— Charles H. Townes

Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found…

— Richard Hamming

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

Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the child of…

— Vaclav Smil

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories…

— Dean Ornish

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face…

— Henry W. Kendall

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

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'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

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