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At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong claims about the scientific evidence, lest contrarians "attack us". Another said that she'd rather err on the side of conservatism in her estimates, because then she feels more "secure.

A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong.

Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning.

Before the 1940s the terms "system" and "systems thinking" had been used by several scientists, but it was Bertalanffy's concepts of an open system and a general systems theory that established systems thinking as a major scientific movement

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.

But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.

Computer scientists stand on each other's feet.

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

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.

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Even brilliant scientists Google themselves.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

Exploration is the sport of the scientist

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

For scientists, reality is not optional.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

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 medical scientist, not a practical physician.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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