#scientist

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#important #know #more #much #scientist

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way. ↗

— Antony Hewish

#challenge #difficult #duty #enjoy #excitement

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#embraces #interpreter #lenses #like #man

I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake? ↗

— James Merrill

#did #i #like #need #newton

Dedicated researchers seek better treatments and cures for diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's and every form of cancer. But these scientists face an array of disincentives. We can do better. ↗

— Michael Milken

#array #better #cancer #cures #dedicated

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#because #become #cannot #changing #climate

We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always been that way. Even those history books enamored of the voyages of Christopher Columbus do not tell much about the builders of the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria or about the principle of the caravel. These spacecraft their designers builders navigators and controllers are examples of what science and engineering set free for well-defined peaceful purposes can accomplish. Those scientists and engineers should be role models for an America seeking excellence and international competitiveness. They should be on our stamps. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#exploration #role-models #science #scientists #space

The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral interest in us, having communicated already with humanity in the past, and might try to boss you around in your private affairs. With hypothetical advanced aliens residing at a safely distant address in the hypothetical multiverse, that is - to the relief of folks like Gribbin, Dawkins and the New Scientist - manifestly not the case. ↗

— David Klinghoffer

#aliens #dawkins #extraterrestrials #id #intelligent-design

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#education #faith #god #gravity #isaac-newton

Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#lovers #romance #scientist #search #swashbuckling