“Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.” IfsTryingStillsDifficultMoralProduceWillingScientistMannersLaboratoryAssistants Author:Laurence J. Peter
“In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both activities produce a sense of awe and a curious mixture of humility and arrogance in their practitioners. All great scientists are inspired by the subtlety and beauty of the natural world that they are seeking to understand. Each new subatomic particle, every unexpected object, produces delight and wonderment. In constructing their theories, physicists are frequently guided by arcane concepts of elegance in the belief that the universe is intrinsically beautiful.” WorldLooksFactsBeautifulScienceReligionUniverseBeliefNaturalObjectsProduceHumilityTheoryActivityConceptsDiscoveryScientistInspiredDelightSeekingCuriousArroganceAweSpiteUnexpectedPhysicistEleganceMixturesParticlesNatural WorldSubtletyVistasGreat ScientistArcaneSubatomic Particles Author:Paul Davies
“The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.” ThinkingRealityTodayClearProduceTheoryScientistRelationMathematicsStructureExperimentsInsaneWanderThinkerSaneEquationsFranklin Author:Nikola Tesla
“The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.” EnergyProduceResearchScientistClimateBurningAtmosphereFuelConcentrationFossilsFossil FuelCo2IndustrializationBurning Fossil Fuels Author:John Olver
“I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to be more likely to produce philosophers, people in the arts, unusually brilliant scientists.” PeopleThinkingYearsKindArtMadeStatesSeemsCertainProduceScientistPhilosopherExtremesBrilliantObservationDepressive Author:Kay Redfield Jamison
“We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent, American government, often initiated by talent scouts specially sent over here to buy British brains and preempt them for service of the U.S.A. ... I look forward earnestly to the day when some reform of the American system of school education enables them to produce their own scientists so that, in an aimiable free trade of talent, there may be adequate interchange between our country and theirs, and not a one-way traffic.” WayLooksMayCountryGovernmentSchoolScienceBrainTalentProduceScientistTradeUniversityBritishOur CountryOne WayReformTrafficAdequateFree TradeAmerican GovernmentSchool EducationInterchangeAmerican BusinessAmerican Universities Author:Lord Hailsham
“Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was the moral moment for physicists. Mass surveillance is the same moment for computer scientists, when they realize that the things they produce can be used to harm a tremendous number of people.” PeopleMomentsUsedRealizingNumbersMoralProduceComputerMassScientistHarmRevelationsBombsPhysicistSurveillanceNsaAtomic Bomb Author:Edward Snowden