#scientists

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#being #consensus #had #hear #other

Science is what scientists do. ↗

— Dennis Flanagan

#scientists

And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#developed #doing #emotionally #everything #go

Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#arguing #art #arts #conversely #discoveries

And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#epiphany #expressed #flying #i #interest

As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action. ↗

— John Olver

#body #consequences #critical #educating #evolved

The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization. ↗

— John Olver

#attributed #burning #climate #co2 #concentration

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#authority #body #distinguished #distributed #evenly

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#efforts #forms #fully #government #international

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#doing #establishment #into #modes #move