Ability Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

“Intense study of a particular field of science does not necessarily make one scientifically literate. Indeed, it has been our experience that working scientists…

— Robert M. Hazen

“One conceivable way to discriminate between a scientific intellectual and a literary intellectual is by considering that a scientific intellectual can usually recognize the…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

— E. O. Wilson

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

— Vladimir Nabokov

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

— Anthony Burgess

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

— Jacques Barzun

We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much…

— Kathryn Schulz

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must…

— Anonymous

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

— Maryanne Wolf