#scientists

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#arrive #bright #case #condition #fairy

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. ↗

— James D. Watson

#conception #contrast #could #dull #goodly

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers. ↗

— James D. Watson

#good #graham #graham greene #greene #heroes

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#advertising #after #artists #attracted #business

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#better #between #book #dalai #dalai lama

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#because #bitter #did #died #fact

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#e-mail #i #i can #over #scientists

Kids are natural scientists. ↗

— Alan Alda

#natural #scientists

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#ghost #ghost stories #ghosts #more #science

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#conference #connects #consensus #continue #cosmopolitan