#scientists

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#because #created #find #god #know

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#amongst #conclusions #convince #digging #doing

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#contribute #directly #expressed #follow #great

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#fiction writers #long #only #people #science

I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#fellow #humanity #i #remember #responsibility

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past. ↗

— Edward M. Purcell

#debt #earn #fellow #highest #highest reward

Master Li, how are we going to murder a man who laughs at axes?" I asked. We are going to experiment, dear boy. Our first order of business will be to find a deranged alchemist, which should not be very difficult. China," said Master Li, "is overstocked with deranged alchemists. ↗

— Barry Hughart

#china #mad-scientists #business

Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all. ↗

— Ed Markey

#america #comfort #compromising #could #economy

Scientists are always skeptics. ↗

— Donald Norman

#scientists #skeptics

Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#canada #conspicuous #dangers #fallout #incoming