#scientists

It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does not lead to knowing. A child's world spreads only a little beyond his understanding while that of a great scientist thrusts outward immeasurably. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. So we draw worlds and fit them like tracings against the world about us, and crumple them when they do not fit and draw new ones. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Pluto will always be a planet in my book. That’s because my book was published before Pluto was blacklisted by planetary scientists.
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— Jarod Kintz

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For scientists, reality is not optional. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

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...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge. ↗

— David Brin

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Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported. ↗

— Paul Berg

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Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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