Calling Quote by Richard Dawkins

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

— Joshua Lederberg

I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever,…

— Scarlett Thomas

I believe that everyone, regardless of their beliefs, deserves the dignity of being called by their name.

— Bernice King

We need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them names.

— Steven Petrow

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

— Steven Weinberg

“People,” the doctor said sadly, “are always so anxious to get things out into the open where they can put a name to them,…

— Shirley Jackson

All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the…

— Kenneth R. Miller

People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science…

— George Coyne

“The passion for naming things is an odd human trait. It is strange that men always feel so much more at ease when they…

— George Gaylord Simpson

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But…

— Gloria Steinem

How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which have not…

— Howard W. Hunter

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

— Marcello Truzzi