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Quotes About Scientists

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.
~ Alan Alda
I would say it's important for scientists to speak out when they can and when they can be listened to.
~ Lisa Randall
When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of my world.
~ Karl Iagnemma
Scientists don't like to be called salesmen.
~ David Andrew Sinclair
If the Numerai fund performs well, that should lead to more assets under management, which should lead to more revenue for Numerai's general partner, which should lead to higher payouts for the data scientists, which implies a higher Numeraire valuation.
~ Olaf Carlson-Wee
A thought that had been in the archives of his mind for many months came sharply into relief: of all human beings alive, the scientists were the only ones who retained imagination, ideals, and a sincere interest in the larger world. It was to them he should give his allegiance, not to the statesmen, not to industry or commerce or war.
~ Philip Wylie
My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore the ocean and work with scientists.
~ Brian Skerry
I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.
~ Alan Alda
I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.
~ Peter Garrett
How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.
~ Nicholas Stern
Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion.
~ Lionel Shriver
A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Social scientists have written papers analyzing Eshelman's every move in there, including the strange detail that the more brutally he behaved, the more American South his accent sounded.
~ Jon Ronson
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) calculated 24.6 million pounds of antibiotics were fed to chickens, pigs, and other farmed animals, only counting nontherapeutic uses.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Atmospheric scientists call these flow patterns "Rossby waves," and they were the cause of the dreaded "polar vortex" that brought record-cold air to inhabitants on the East Coast in the winter of 2014.59
~ Adam Frank
The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.
~ Carl Hart
All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It's corrupt in many ways, in that scientists and academics have handed over to the editors of these journals the ability to make judgment on science and scientists.
~ Sydney Brenner
If competition for Kaggle's top talent becomes fierce enough among banks, insurance companies, hedge funds - we hope the world's best data scientists will earn more than $50 million per year, just like the world's best hedge fund managers.
~ Anthony Goldbloom
I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and what I know and have learned about as a scientist. I think there's a broad perception that that's the case, and that's what scares many scientists away from a serious consideration of faith.
~ Francis Collins
Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes. We just don't vote on quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, why the sky is blue, or anything else.
~ Alan Stern
Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.
~ Rick Perlstein
Sharing data allows us to research, communicate, consume media, buy and sell, play games, and more. In return, businesses develop products, scientists undertake research, and governments use data to enable voting, inform policies, collect tax, and provide better public services.
~ Mark Walport