#scientist

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#deeply #insane #instead #must #quite

I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#fellow #humanity #i #remember #responsibility

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#actually #agree #climate #like #more

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#i #metaphorical #precise #say #scientists

There's no term to the work of a scientist. ↗

— Walter Reisch

#term #work

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. ↗

— John Sladek

#exactly #expensive #far #future #like

Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it. ↗

— Richard Pound

#accidental #active #cheating #complex #complicity

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. ↗

— Henri Poincaré

#nature #scientist #beauty

Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence of cholesterol. She's fascinated by cholesterol. Says it's very beautiful: bright yellow. She says Ang is wholly uninterested. He has no idea what she does. I check this out for myself. 'What does Jane do?' I ask. 'Science,' he says vaguely. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#cholesterol #disparate-interests #husbands #lack-of-interest #married-couples

Master Li, how are we going to murder a man who laughs at axes?" I asked. We are going to experiment, dear boy. Our first order of business will be to find a deranged alchemist, which should not be very difficult. China," said Master Li, "is overstocked with deranged alchemists. ↗

— Barry Hughart

#china #mad-scientists #business