#scientist

I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#brain #cognitive #constructs #directly #does

I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#anyone #contributed #else #happy #herself

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#faith #himself #i #i have learned #learned

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists. ↗

— Jose Mourinho

#beautiful people #brains #intelligent #like #people

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#computer #controlled #could #fields #had

Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#science #scientists #truth #science

On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be there largely unaltered deep-frozen awaiting the chemists from Earth ↗

— Carl Sagan

#chemists #moons #planets #science #scientists

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#altogether #biological #boundaries #bypass #dna

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone. ↗

— John Bardeen

#combined #could #effective #individual #more

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind. ↗

— Martha Beck

#alike #anything #avoid #bias #change