Cows Quote by Peter Medawar

The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people resolve conflicting…

— Dean Ornish

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

— Penelope Fitzgerald

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or…

— Anonymous

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

— Francis Collins

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

— Debra Fischer

“Contrary to the rules of philosophers of science, who advise testing hypotheses by trying to refute them, people (and scientists, quite often) seek data…

— Daniel Kahneman

It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of scientists, well, that gets scientists worried.…

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

“The modern world is drowning in information. We have more data than we can possibly use regarding nearly every picayune matter of society, economics,…

— Jeffrey A. Lockwood

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli…

— Abba Eban

There is no need for the scientist to go into whether an observation was made, nor into the who, what, when, or where. The…

— Ernest Sosa

“But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and unknown in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views…

— Lisa Randall