Born Quote by Max Born

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

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

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

— Marcello Truzzi

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

— James D. Watson

Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

— Peter Ritchie Calder

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

— Carroll Quigley

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

— Plato

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

— Criss Jami

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

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

— Jacques Derrida

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

— Plato

I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming…

— Thabo Mbeki