“The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in the investment community, you'd better pay serious attention to them.” IfsWorldUnderstandingCommunityMoneyPayAttentionBrainSeriousScientistInvestmentFinancialWaveAcademia Author:Daniel Kahneman
“When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.” WritingMayArtPayAttentionSubjectsReaderScientistProofPay AttentionSomething NewRejectedDiscomfort Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this should mean a deliberate attempt to understand the thoughts of the great masters of the past, to see in what circumstances or intellectual milieu their ideas were formed, where they took the wrong turning or stopped short on the right track.” ShouldMeanIdeasPastAttentionMastersNeededCircumstancesIntellectualScientistTrackHistorianDeliberateBiologistHistory Of ScienceRight TrackMilieuWrong Turn Author:Ronald Fisher
“Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have had no choice but to turn their attention to the close study of everyday objects.” PeopleScienceTurnsChoicesFunPartyAttentionStudyObjectsScientistEverydayStrangerIronyShyAwkwardEveryday Objects Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen in their evolution. In the natural sciences both theories and descriptive systems grow by adaptation to the increasing knowledge and experience of the scientists. In the social sciences, systems often issue fully formed from the mind of one man. Then they may be much discussed if they attract attention, but progressive adaptive modification as a result of the concerted efforts of great numbers of men is rare.” IfsMenMindMaySocialGrowsNaturalDifferencesResultsNumbersEffortAttentionKnowledgeIssuesBuildingTheoryEvolutionScientistOne ManProgressiveAdaptationSocial ScienceNatural ScienceClassificationModificationKnowledge And ExperienceAdaptiveIncreasing Knowledge Author:Lawrence Joseph Henderson
“I think there is too much attention on mentoring. If people want to be scientists, they will figure out how to do it. They need to figure it out by themselves.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsAttentionToo MuchFiguresScientistMentoring Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
“I think the scientists have really caught the attention of the people of this country, and of course, they elected representatives by their very clear pronouncement that if we don't do something, we'll be in a lot of trouble.” PeopleIfsThinkingCountryCoursesAttentionClearTroubleScientistCaughtRepresentatives Author:Barbara Boxer
“As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.” YearsPowerfulAttentionTakenYears AgoScientistFocusedEastCoreMilesIceGlobal WarmingTrappedCarbonSheetsElegantMeasurementCarbon DioxideAntarctica Author:John Olver
“Here's the scientific community saying, fundamentally, "If we don't change our ways, we're screwed." And they got no attention at all. Even though the Union of Concerned Scientists put out this statement which was signed by more than half of all the Nobel laureates in science and another 1,500 distinguished scientists.” IfsWayCommunityAttentionHalfConcernedScientistUnionsStatementsDistinguishedNobelDon't Change Author:Paul R. Ehrlich