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Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.

Exploration is the sport of the scientist

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

Few scientists would treat their cars as badly as they treat their conceptual schemes.

For scientists, reality is not optional.

For the first time ever, women are scoring higher than men on IQ tests. Scientists say it has something to do with breast implants -- not that it makes the women smarter, it just makes the men dumber.

God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.

Go as far as you can, [young scientists]. The world needs you badly.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

Heidi Cullen had said that all of these local and cable weather forecasters who have been certified by the AMS, the American Meteorological Society, should be decertified if they refuse to accept the proven science of man-made global warming. There are numerous credible scientists, who have not been convinced that this is anything other than sunspot activity or normal cycles that the earth has gone through for billions and billions and billions and billions of years. Science can't prove man-made global warming, they simply can't, so they come up with this notion of consensus.

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

I am a scientist. I go where the facts take me.

I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didnt wear off, but I found other interests.

I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

I am not a scientist, but I don't need to be.

I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.

I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.

I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.

I can go into a lab and fool the rear ends off any group of scientists.

I do love science. My father is a scientist.

If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

If something comes up that is completely freaky, it's spiritual-looking to the scientist, the first explanation is not going to be that it's God, because the history of that has failed. It would have to be, like, the hundredth explanation.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.

If there are lessons to be drawn from the sciences, then that should be the concern of everyone, including scientists to the extent that they can make a contribution.

If the theory accurately predicts what they [scientists] see, it confirms that it's a good theory. If they see something that the theory didn't lead them to believe, that's what Thomas Kuhn calls an anomaly. The anomaly requires a revised theory - and you just keep going through the cycle, making a better theory.

If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All credible scientists agree on this point.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

I have never seen myself as an alarmist but rather as a scientist with a critical viewpoint, and in that sense I have always been a skeptic. I have devoted most of my career to developing models for predicting the weather, and in doing so I have learned the importance of validating forecasts against observed weather. As a result, that's an approach I strongly favor for "climate predictions." It's essential to validate model results, especially when dealing with complex systems such as the climate. It's essential do so properly if such predictions are to be considered credible.

I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.