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Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have had no…

— Fran Lebowitz

Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and…

— Hans Eysenck

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences…

— Eric Hobsbawm

“People confuse science and scientists. Science is great, but individual scientists are dangerous. They are human; they are marred by the biases humans have.…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Marcello Truzzi

Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are…

— Peter Medawar

Many of my friends are scientists.

— Eileen Pollack

I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.

— Heidi Hammel

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

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

— John Maeda

Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

— Yann Martel