House Quote by Joseph Stiglitz

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

— George Andrew Olah

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists

— Tony Abbott

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

Many of my friends are scientists.

— Eileen Pollack

At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.

— Robert B. Laughlin

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

— Marcello Truzzi

Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

— Cyril Ponnamperuma

Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a…

— Ann Coulter

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in…

— Tammy Baldwin

Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in the thought…

— Bill Foster

Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

— Mary Hesse

When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is…

— Paul Davies