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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
We're starting to see a renaissance of investors embracing the idea that scientists can build businesses.
Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.
So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.
In my experience, if people don't have a sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists, either.
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
When scientists get old, they get interested in the brain, and I'm a little bit afraid I'm falling into that.
Some of the most important discoveries that scientists have made were not what they were seeking at the time.
I'm not going to argue with scientists how much human activity affects natural environment, including climate.
The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.
Some of the 'aha' insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects.
Guys like the Monarch are not unique, and there are guys like him all over the world torturing dumb scientists.
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
I do not consider myself to be a scientist, and I've always deferred to career scientists on issues of science.
Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.
In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.
Some of the best scientists can't explain gravity; Neil Degrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, in the end, do they even know?
Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy.
It's my experience that scientists can find it difficult to understand the needs of scriptwriters or storytellers.
I'm a synthesizer. We need to synthesize more the relationships between artists and scientists, and men and women.
To understand the future properly, it's crucial that we listen to geologists as often as we do computer scientists.
We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.
Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.
We scientists have an obsession with unification, a grand synthesis. And dark matter is an irritating missing piece.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.
There is a majority of scientists that say that global carbon emissions by humans causes some changes in the climate.
To unambiguously settle the questions of whether there was life on Mars, it will take scientists down on the surface.
There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.
I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.
If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.
Showing women being scientists on television can have a great impact on who actually goes into science as a profession.
Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.
I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
I'm impressed by the economic development of Korea. And women scientists played, without doubt, an important role in it.
There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.
I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.
I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.
Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Scientists have argued that research is good for health, wealth, and society, and the government has trusted them on that.
The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.