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In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end.

In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.

In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that's not quite me. What's me is to do it in novels.

Iranian nuclear policy is transparent, and we have opened our facilities to United Nations inspectors. However, we will not abandon the great achievements of Iranian scientists. I too will not suspend uranium enrichment. However, I will attempt to avoid unnecessary tensions. We have a right to enrich uranium.

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

I read the things that scientists have figured out, and apply what they say is beneficial, but at the end of the day I'm the wrong person to get unchallenged nutritional advice from.

I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.

It doesn’t matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.

I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a disciplinary and sub-disciplinary specialty, so I am a psychologist and I am a social psychologist within that. But I think the exciting thing is to think about the social sciences in general and the nature of society. It's one of the hardest things to think about, because our brains aren't designed to think about these emergent entities. We're not good at it.

I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have. We all need to have those as we make our way through the day. And they're not that hard to acquire.

It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.

It makes no sense to complain about a lack of imagination in scientists when their failure is simply that they cannot make the world be what it is not, and they cannot make the world do what it cannot do.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on".

It should be totally fine to question the objectivity of scientists and the power structures in scientific institutions. The physical laws of the universe are objective, but human beings in any context are not. That includes with regard to science. To some extent, the supposed objectivity of science has given a lot of extra cover to very subjective and eccentric approaches to exploring aspects of ourselves and the universe around us.

It’s ironic that as scientists that don’t believe in god, were the ones that are closest to god.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough.

[I want] a one-armed scientist ... [Who would not qualify his advice with 'on the other hand...']

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

I wasn't naturally a scientist, but I was always fascinated by how the world worked and why things were the way they were.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.]

Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.

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.

Let's put research into the hands of legitimate scientists, not pot profiteers.

Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

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.

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

Man lives for science as well as bread.

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.

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

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 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?

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.

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

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.