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Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

Computer scientists stand on each other's feet.

Controlling for all the things that sociologists, economists, and political scientists say you should control for, we find that what drives one's views [most significantly] is race.

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

Even brilliant scientists Google themselves.

Energy is the master resource, because energy enables us to convert one material into another. As natural scientists continue to learn more about the transformation of materials from one form to another with the aid of energy, energy will be even more important.

Even if a majority of scientists agree on something, they know that if they don't agree on it they're not going to get their funding anymore, they won't have jobs. If it could be proven that there is no man made global warming, Heidi Cullen might be out of a job.

Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

Every day we put another 110 million tons of global warming pollution into the sky as if it's an open sewer, and it's still building up. And the scientists tell us it's a race against time. We've stabilized emissions globally now for the last three years, but they need to start coming down quickly. We've got the momentum, we've got the wind in our sails, we're gonna win this.

Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

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.

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

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

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 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 a scientist. I go where the facts take me.

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.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon.

Exploration is the sport of the scientist

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

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.

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

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.

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

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

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

I do love science. My father is a scientist.

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

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

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