Disinterested Quote by Lewis Wolpert

The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.

— Carl Hart

It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that…

— Peter Medawar

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

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a…

— James D. Watson

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads…

— Lisa Randall

The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the…

— Paul Johnson

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

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Marcello Truzzi

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

— George Wald

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.

— George Wald

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau