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Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets.

Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.

Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept of God and on the existence of God?

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea.

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

[My favorite scientist] Michio Kaku. He deals with wormholes. Check him out. He's great.

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

One day scientists will more fully understand the chemistry and neuro-circuitry that differentiates love from lust. I couldn't begin to explain the mechanics, but I know that they feel differently.

Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming. They have a responsibility not to report what these scientists say.

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports   in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.

Science is all metaphor.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.

Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.

Scientists are a bunch of romantics.