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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.

Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming. They have a responsibility not to report what these scientists say.

One day scientists will more fully understand the chemistry and neuro-circuitry that differentiates love from lust. I couldn't begin to explain the mechanics, but I know that they feel differently.

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports   in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

Scientists believe that the invention of clothing in Africa was a key factor in allowing our ancestors to migrate into colder climates and to spread across the globe.

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.

Scientists tend to focus on what they don't know more than what they do know. And there are a lot of things we still don't know about the climate. But we know the difference between climate variability and climate change, and right now the amount of carbon in the atmosphere is well outside the variability pattern - and that's quite quantifiable.

Scientists are like atomic nuclei. They are more easily split than fused.

Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Scientists have discovered a food that reduces a woman's sex drive by 99%. Wedding cake.

Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some times make claims that are misunderstood by the public.

Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.

Science is all metaphor.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.

Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.

Scientists are a bunch of romantics.