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The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.

The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

There is no debate among any statured scientists of what is happening. The only debate is the rate at which it is happening.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

There is no science in global warming. "Mr. Limbaugh, that's typical of what you! That's the most outrageous statement I've ever heard anybody ever make! No science in global warming?" Do you know how I know there's no science in global warming, folks? Because they tell us a "consensus of scientists" agrees that X. There is no consensus in science.

There is no last word in research, and that includes climate research. It's never the truth that scientists offer, but only our best possible approximation of reality. But that often gets forgotten in the way the public perceives and describes our work.

There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by the accommodations they have made to religious irrationality.

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, "Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the facts. We're not making this up.

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

There will be well-testable theories, hardly testable theories, and non-testable theories. Those which are non-testable are of no interest to empirical scientists. They may be described as metaphysical.

The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

The scientists at CERN were actually surprised that people commented on this. Reportedly Fabiola Gianotti, the coordinator of the CERN program to find the Higgs Boson, was asked why she had selected Comic Sans. She simply said, "Because I like it.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.

The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of whom operates under an inner compulsion to get the most out of life with the least expenditure of labor.

The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.

The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.

The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don't know it have so far been overlooked.

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

Tilth is something every farmer can recognize but no scientist can measure.

Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code).

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Virtually every scientist now concedes that universe and time itself had beginning. So, whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe must have had a cause.

Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.

We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some point stopped and "history" took over is absurd, though it is widespread among various social scientists and humanists.

We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it involves outer space.