All Quotes

Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.
‐‐ Shawn Achor

Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money.
‐‐ James Gleick

Scientifically, it has been proven that after three bites, your palate has been satisfied. It doesn't matter what you eat. So if you eat one boule of ice cream, that's all you need. You don't have to eat pint after pint after pint.
‐‐ Mireille Guiliano

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
‐‐ Tamsin Greig

Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
‐‐ Aaron D. O'Connell

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
‐‐ John Charles Polanyi

Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.
‐‐ David Suzuki

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.
‐‐ Conan O'Brien

Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden Planet's Monsters of the Id.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

Scientists are always skeptics.
‐‐ Donald Norman

Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that is there and perhaps do something to take care of it.
‐‐ Graham Hawkes

Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats.
‐‐ David Suzuki

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.
‐‐ Kary Mullis

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
‐‐ J. Robert Oppenheimer

Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
‐‐ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day.
‐‐ Johnny Galecki

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
‐‐ Arthur Koestler

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

Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it's just thoughtful inquiry.
‐‐ Michael Shermer

Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.
‐‐ Paul Davies

Scientists are sometimes as competitive as professional athletes, maybe.
‐‐ Brian Kobilka

Scientists are supposed to study animals in a totally objective fashion, similar to the way we inspect a rock or measure the circumference of a tree trunk. Emotions are not to interfere with the assessment. The animal-rights movement capitalizes on this perception, depicting scientists as devoid of compassion.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
‐‐ Donald Johanson

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.
‐‐ Bruno Latour

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

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow

Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
‐‐ Haldan Keffer Hartline

Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a purpose.
‐‐ Neil Turok

Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
‐‐ Sam Kean

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

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

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
‐‐ James A. Michener

Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.
‐‐ David Suzuki

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.
‐‐ Martin Rees

Scientists have a tendency to believe in absolutes, in studies and the repeating of them. Psychoanalysis is firmly based in subjective accounts. We need both.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no particular significance to the evolution of the species.
‐‐ Hendrik Poinar

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.
‐‐ David Suzuki

Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy.
‐‐ Sam Kean

Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.'
‐‐ Jane McGonigal

Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
‐‐ Jack Horner

Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.
‐‐ Charles C. Mann

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.
‐‐ Jonathan Katz

Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.
‐‐ Kay Redfield Jamison

Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
‐‐ Paul Davies

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

Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.
‐‐ Jane Velez-Mitchell