Manners Quote by Mark Twain

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

— Marcello Truzzi

The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something…

— Vannevar Bush

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is…

— Anthony Standen

Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.

— Naomi Oreskes

People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

— Stephen Hawking

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

— Max Planck

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Never underestimate the power of a “reasonable-sounding argument”, especially to people who are not scientists.”

— Angelic-Demon

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

— A. S. Byatt

There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

— David Baltimore

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

— David Landes