Assembling Quote by Shirley M. Tilghman

scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.

— Natalie Angier

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

The problem for large scientific projects is to do something that is being done for the first time, balanced against cost, schedule. and promises…

— Barry Barish

The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short…

— Bill Gates

Every day we go over data and use science and data to drive policy and decision-making.

— Deborah Birx

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

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

Data helps solve problems.

— Anne Wojcicki

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

— John Wilbanks

Ever since Sir Isaac Newton's times, scientists have worked in the same sort of way: They show a great respect for experiment and observation,…

— Paul Nurse

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a…

— Anonymous