Backgrounds Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Any really good scientist is as much an artist as a scientist. All the interesting stuff is found on the edge between knowing and…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question…

— Robert Winston

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

— Parker J. Palmer

People have asked me whether I have a science background. No, but I have a great curiosity about the kinds of things we do…

— Peter Graves

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year,…

— Richard Leakey

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge…

— Antony Hewish

In a weird way scientists understand things on a higher level but it takes a lot of dedication and a lot of time.

— Michael Pitt

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of…

— Jean Rostand

When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little technical jargon…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

I want to get across that science is something that we all have ownership of and we can all take an interest in. We…

— Ben Miller

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

— Ray Bradbury

“Those insights in science that have led to a breakthrough were not logically derived from preexisting knowledge: The creative processes on which the progress…

— William Lanouette