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

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

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.