Believe Quote by Peter Medawar

I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

I largely defer to the cognitive ethologists. I believe that the arguments that they make on this score are extremely persuasive. More than this,…

— Hilary Kornblith

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific…

— Anonymous

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

Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where.

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study,…

— Eugenie Clark

Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single…

— Jacques Ellul

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to…

— Richard Dawkins

Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed…

— Patricia Piccinini

People will often take an interesting experimental study which has been done in the world, perhaps at small scale, and then it's touted as…

— Sendhil Mullainathan

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast…

— David Eagleman