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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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

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

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

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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    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.]

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.

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    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?

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    Man lives for science as well as bread.

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

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    Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

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    Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.

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    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.

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    My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

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    My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

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    My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

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    Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.

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    [My favorite scientist] Michio Kaku. He deals with wormholes. Check him out. He's great.

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    Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.