#scientists

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#attack #defending #deliberate #devote #enough

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#analyze #belief #believe #business #business school

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions. ↗

— Joseph Crowley

#behind #charged #fda #own #politics

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. ↗

— Marie Curie

#errors #establishing #hunt #hurry #instead

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#contribution #enormous #fact #own #preceding

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#keyhole #peeping #scientists #toms

Scientists want to search for alien signals because that's what gets them publicity. They are like Jesus Christ." "Jesus Christ?" Nambodri asked, with a faintly derogatory chuckle. "Yes. They are exactly like Jesus Christ. You know that he turned water into wine." "I've heard that story." "From the point of view of pure chemistry, it is more miraculous to make wine into water than water into wine. But he did not do that. Because if he had gone to someone's house and converted their wine into water, they would have crucified him much earlier. He knew, Jana. He knew making water into wine was a more popular thing to do. ↗

— Manu Joseph

#jesus-christ #scientists #humor

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#company #curate #dukes #feel #find

Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#adult stem cells #blood #bone #bone marrow #cells

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches. ↗

— Franz Boas

#consciously #know #life #nevertheless #private