#scientist

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#ashamed #attacking #awful #because #damage

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#does #frequently #illustrate #interests #responds

And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#epiphany #expressed #flying #i #interest

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#build #equation #eventually #experiments #mathematics

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#poet #precision #scientist #should #writer

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#explain #outset #riddles #scientist #should

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet. ↗

— John Olver

#antarctica #attention #became #carbon #carbon dioxide

As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action. ↗

— John Olver

#body #consequences #critical #educating #evolved

The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization. ↗

— John Olver

#attributed #burning #climate #co2 #concentration

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#conception #contemporary #contemporary society #few #getting