#scientists

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. ↗

— Stella Adler

#illogical #imagination #leap #logical #make

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#bring #dismiss #effective #enabled #faculty

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#attack #defending #deliberate #devote #enough

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#employment #established #fact #health #improves

I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#beamed #blessed #carrying #could #country

One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears. ↗

— Michael Flanders

#anything #because #being #dears #else

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions. ↗

— Joseph Crowley

#behind #charged #fda #own #politics

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. ↗

— Marie Curie

#errors #establishing #hunt #hurry #instead

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#activities #consequences #even #group #individuals

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes. ↗

— Jonathan Katz

#behind #couple #found #gene #genes