Feels Quote by Stephen Hawking

More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

— Stephen Hawking

Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors…

— Seth Shostak

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually…

— Carl Sagan

Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

— Cyril Ponnamperuma

In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others…

— Nathaniel Rich

Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be…

— Carl Sagan

Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded…

— Martin Gardner

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.

— Leonard Mlodinow

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have…

— Robert Pollack

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

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

— Isaac Asimov

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