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

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

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

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 is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

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.

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

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.

Scientists are always skeptics.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true.

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

Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

Scientists believe that the invention of clothing in Africa was a key factor in allowing our ancestors to migrate into colder climates and to spread across the globe.

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.

Scientists tend to focus on what they don't know more than what they do know. And there are a lot of things we still don't know about the climate. But we know the difference between climate variability and climate change, and right now the amount of carbon in the atmosphere is well outside the variability pattern - and that's quite quantifiable.

Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations.

Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads.

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

Scientists are like atomic nuclei. They are more easily split than fused.

Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Scientists have discovered a food that reduces a woman's sex drive by 99%. Wedding cake.

Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some times make claims that are misunderstood by the public.

Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.

So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.

Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.

Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.