#scientists

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. ↗

— David Chalmers

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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

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#build #equation #eventually #experiments #mathematics

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#because #becoming #date #early #either

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#companies #consulting #contractual #especially #into

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. ↗

— Donald Cram

#avoid #being #biological #chemistry #few

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips. ↗

— Penelope Fitzgerald

#depend #evidence #gossips #scientists #than

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#doing #done #finished #hate #lab

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#i #impossible #into #kind #like