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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and entertain is going to be amazing.

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?

The Al Gore movie cashed in on his personality and the question of where he had been in the six years since his failed US presidential bid. The same movie starring any NASA scientist would have lost money.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

The attempt to discover and promulgate the truth is nevertheless an obligation upon all scientists, one that must be persevered in no matter what the rebuffs—for otherwise what is the point in being a scientist?

The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have achieved. On the contrary, they head in this direction.

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

The big question that scientists haven't even begun to get an answer for is how many species of microorganisms are there? Now, this is not stamp collecting. What we need is experts totally devoting their research to everything they can find out about every species, in a community of scientists who appreciate that every fact counts...everything new you learn about any species in any group is worth publishing somewhere.

The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science.

The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.

The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist - a skill which he shares with many other scientists, but in which he has perhaps a certain comparative advantage.

The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation.... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.

The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.

The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.

The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.

The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'

The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.

The manufactured consensus of the IPCC has had the unintended consequences of distorting the science, elevating the voices of scientists that dispute the consensus, and motivating actions by the consensus scientists and their supporters that have diminished the public's trust in the IPCC.

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is

The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.

There is no debate among any statured scientists of what is happening. The only debate is the rate at which it is happening.

There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by the accommodations they have made to religious irrationality.

There is no last word in research, and that includes climate research. It's never the truth that scientists offer, but only our best possible approximation of reality. But that often gets forgotten in the way the public perceives and describes our work.

There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, "Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the facts. We're not making this up.

There is no science in global warming. "Mr. Limbaugh, that's typical of what you! That's the most outrageous statement I've ever heard anybody ever make! No science in global warming?" Do you know how I know there's no science in global warming, folks? Because they tell us a "consensus of scientists" agrees that X. There is no consensus in science.

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

There will be well-testable theories, hardly testable theories, and non-testable theories. Those which are non-testable are of no interest to empirical scientists. They may be described as metaphysical.

There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.