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A false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.
Dorothy L. SayersSource: Gaudy Night
A generalist knows nothing about everything.
A specialist knows everything about nothing.
I know nothing about nothing.
MinkukelA specialist knows everything about nothing.
I know nothing about nothing.
Absence of evidence is no evidence of absence.
(unknown author)Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
(unknown author)All disaster movies start with the government ignoring a scientist.
(unknown author)All models are wrong.
George BoxAny academic who doubts the depth of animal emotions ought to get a dog.
Frans de WaalAnyone who thinks they have solved the problem of consciousness hasn't been thinking about it carefully enough.
Frans de WaalSource: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
By exposing the absence of purpose in the laws governing the universe, science forces us to take responsibility for the welfare of ourselves, our species, and our planet.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
Anatoly KarpovCreativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary Lou CookDare mighty things.
Theodore RooseveltDecades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.
Jeff MerkleyDemocracy is no way to establish a truth.
Richard DawkinsDo not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
Richard DawkinsEvery man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
Konrad LorenzEvolution is now universally accepted as a fact by thinking people
Richard DawkinsExpect the unexpected.
For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.
Greta ThunbergI am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
Daniel DennettI am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
Stephen HawkingI am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
Hans RoslingI believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
Stephen HawkingI have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Albert EinsteinI hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.
Stephen HawkingI personally would consider it an honour to be fossilized.
Richard DawkinsI think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen HawkingIf an expert says it can’t be done, get another expert.
Shimon PeresIf I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac NewtonIf we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
Samuel Johnson