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We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast…

— Jared Diamond

Those who do good science do so because they choose problems that are suited to them.

— Lee Smolin

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

— Anonymous

Here's the scientific community saying, fundamentally, "If we don't change our ways, we're screwed." And they got no attention at all. Even though the…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them.…

— Stephen Fry

Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

— Philip Emeagwali

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is…

— Alice Dreger

No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. ... Good scientists study the most important…

— Peter Medawar

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important…

— Paul Nurse

All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if…

— Ernst Mayr

As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were…

— J. Allen Hynek

In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the…

— E. O. Wilson