“Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.” TodayFictionScientistScience FictionHistorianGreat WorkFiction WritersCluelessSociologistsFuturism Author:Michio Kaku
“There is no need for the scientist to go into whether an observation was made, nor into the who, what, when, or where. The data on which scientific theorizing is based are rather the propositional contents of the instrument readings recorded, or the facts detected thereby.” NeedsMadeFactsReadingScientistInstrumentsObservationData Author:Ernest Sosa
“When there are conflicts of observation, when experiments cannot be replicated, scientists may then retreat to a study of the various specific observations so as to explain the conflict, in the course of which they would make use of the concept of observation, or of some specification of that concept.” MayUseCoursesStudyConflictConceptsScientistVariousExperimentsObservationRetreatSpecifications Author:Ernest Sosa
“Iranian nuclear policy is transparent, and we have opened our facilities to United Nations inspectors. However, we will not abandon the great achievements of Iranian scientists. I too will not suspend uranium enrichment. However, I will attempt to avoid unnecessary tensions. We have a right to enrich uranium.” NationsUnitedPolicyAchievementScientistNuclearTensionAbandonUnnecessaryUnited NationsTransparentFacilityIranianGreat AchievementEnrichmentInspectorsUranium Author:Mir-Hossein Mousavi
“Scientists should be doing a better job of guarding their own reputations and of the general scientific community.” ShouldJobsCommunityScientistReputationBetter JobsGuarding Author:Michael F. Jacobson
“It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.” ThinkingWorldLooksWould BeTodayPastPoliticalFunImagineCenturyCoupleMachinesScientistPhilosopherBe GoodWorld TodayTime MachineHobbesGood FunGreat PhilosophersMalthus Author:Scott D. Anthony
“Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I discovered the humanities. I read the plays of Shakespeare voraciously, some novels, such as Pasternack's Dr. Zhivago and Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, and I got into philosophy by reading Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.” PhilosophyPlaySchoolHumanityReadingBoysNovelStreetsTypeHigh SchoolScientistExpectedChemistryDrsJuniorsMain Street Author:Allen W. Wood
“You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.” ThinkingInspirationalStarsMillionsBecomingPercentScientistTeenagerNbaRealisticTeensEngineersTeenage Author:Dean Kamen
“Outsourcing, information technology revolution, the access to India's human resources, India's pool of scientists. It will help American companies to become leaner, meaner, more efficient, and they become more competitive, both in the United States and in dealing with the rest of the world.” WorldHumansStatesHelpingUnitedCompanyTechnologyUnited StatesInformationRevolutionResourcesScientistIndiaAccessPoolEfficientHuman ResourcesInformation TechnologyOutsourcing Author:Manmohan Singh
“I'm not a scientist. I just read articles that are interesting and that capture my imagination, but I think there's a reason why there's so much faith placed in science.” ThinkingReasonImaginationInterestingScientistReason WhyCaptureArticlesMy Imagination Author:Kevin Feige
“The scientists actually have suggested things that ambitious. There are good studies coming out of Stanford, Mark Jacobson for example and others, showing how it can be done. But it really requires a sense of emergency. It cannot be done unless we really understand that literally our lives are on the line.” DoneLinesStudyOur LivesExampleScientistMarkComing OutAmbitiousEmergenciesStanford Author:Jill Stein
“The most recent science including from Jim Hansen, the foremost climate scientist, suggests that we could see as much as, according to his study, meters' worth [of sea-level rise] - that is nine, 12, 15 and more - as soon as 50 years from his study.” YearsLevelsStudySeaScientistClimateIncludingNineMeterSea Level Rise Author:Jill Stein
“Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this year? Yet social scientists are asked to answer analogous questions. We economists and perhaps psychologists shouldn't overreact to the derision. That is, we shouldn't try to overlay a false sense of precision on our admittedly squooshy work.” PeopleTryingYearsGirlSocialAnswersBabyScientistExperimentsControlledEconomistDollsPsychologistPrecisionDerision Author:Robert J. Shiller
“I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.” TermDesignScientistPhilosopherComprehensiveAmbiguous Author:Jonathon Keats
“Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological naturalism that gives advice to philosophers, which I call "methodological naturalismp." It says that the methods that philosophers should use in assessing philosophical theories are limited to the methods that scientists ought to use in assessing scientific theories.” GivingShouldUseAdviceTheoryTypeOughtScientistPhilosophicalMethodPhilosopherCall MeNaturalismScientific TheoryAssessing Author:Elliott Sober
“Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true.” ModelsScientistAccurate Author:Elliott Sober
“I had two competing ambitions when I was a child: I wanted to be a Scientist and Discover Great Things, but I also wanted to be an Author and Write Great Things. I've always tried to combine the analytical with the creative, to some extent or another, because I find it hard to do one without the other. I've worked as a tech journalist, social media consultant, and now am self-publishing fiction.” WritingChildrenTwoSelfHardWantedSocialFictionCreativeMediaAmbitionScientistSocial MediaGreat ThingsJournalistPublishingCompetingConsultants Author:Suw Charman-Anderson
“I'm sure scientists would point to specific brain chemicals, but I think love is actually a kind of magic. It's what allows things to happen, people to be creative, the world to change. Great things come out of love - for other people, for art, for beauty.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindArtHappensLove IsBrainCreativeMagicScientistGreat ThingsChemicalsBe Creative Author:Theodora Goss
“I'm writinng my first full-length novel, which is based on a novella I wrote called "The Mad Scientist's Daughter." I'm having a wonderful time with it, but of course it's presenting challenges as well. Stories always do, no matter what they are.” FirstsWellsMatterStoriesCoursesChallengesNovelWonderfulDaughterScientistNo Matter WhatMadLengthPresentingWonderful TimesMad Scientist Author:Theodora Goss
“I'd love to be a mad scientist who plays around with chemistry, and solves all the world's problems and creates a few of them himself.” WorldPlayProblemScientistMadSolveChemistryMad Scientist Author:Kellan Lutz
“[My favorite scientist] Michio Kaku. He deals with wormholes. Check him out. He's great.” DealsScientistMy FavoriteChecksWormholes Author:Kellan Lutz
“If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All credible scientists agree on this point.” IfsEconomyScientistAgreeClimateIncludingProductionsCatastropheWrecksCredibleHavocFood Production Author:Van Jones
“You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.” KnowsLevelsRocksScientistLakesRipple Author:Norman Lear
“I was able to persuade them to let me shoot in areas that were beyond the volcano itself. Beyond the joint scientific program between Cambridge University and North Korean scientists. I was able to film in a kindergarten, subway, other things you would not normally be allowed to do.” AbleFilmAreasProgramScientistLet MeUniversityJointsNorth KoreaKoreanSubwayKindergartenVolcanoesCambridgeNorth KoreanCambridge University Author:Werner Herzog
“Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature. But we live in a world in which all sorts of change is happening all the time, and the only way to understand what climate change will bring is to tell stories about how it manifests in people's lives.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayMeanStoriesTermHappeningsConcernScientistClimateClimate ChangeSurfaceConstructsTemperature Author:Dale Jamieson
“I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough.” TryingWantedScientistNaturalist Author:Jane Goodall
“The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.” ComputerTrainingEthicsScientistMathematicsDataDiscussionStatisticsComputer ScienceTechnicians Author:Cathy O'Neil
“We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we have another 100,000 years?" In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.” YearsFoundInterestingMankindThousandScientistCriticalPhrasesThousand YearsEnteringVery InterestingCalculations Author:Werner Herzog
“Scientific truth is not what any one scientist puts forth. It can be that, but it is generally not. It is the sum of multiple studies that all lean in the same direction in their results conducted by different people at different times of different nationalities with different competitive urges who all end up getting the same result. Then you have an emerging scientific truth, and then you put that in the textbooks, and that will never be shown to be wrong later on.” PeopleDifferentEndsResultsStudyTruth IsScientistUrgesMultipleDifferent PeoplesNationalityEmergingTextbooksDifferent TimesScientific TruthDifferent Nationalities Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“If something comes up that is completely freaky, it's spiritual-looking to the scientist, the first explanation is not going to be that it's God, because the history of that has failed. It would have to be, like, the hundredth explanation.” IfsFirstsSpiritualScientistCome UpExplanationFreaky Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.” ThinkingReligiousIssuesHappeningsScientistThese Days Author:Barack Obama
“There are a lot of very religious scientists around. I think the problem here is that in our school systems, and to some degree - and this is where it is relevant - with school boards around the country that are mandating curriculums and textbooks, you start seeing this weird watering down of scientific fact so that our kids are growing up in an environment - and this connects to what I was saying earlier abou the media - where everything's contested. Where nothing is true.” ThinkingCountryFactsProblemKidsSchoolReligiousGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingSeeingMediaDegreesScientistBoardsRelevantTextbooksCurriculumSchool SystemScientific FactsSchool Board Author:Barack Obama
“Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.” YearsFoundBehindsCoupleYears AgoScientistShyHidingGenesShyness Author:Jonathan Katz
“One day scientists will more fully understand the chemistry and neuro-circuitry that differentiates love from lust. I couldn't begin to explain the mechanics, but I know that they feel differently.” KnowsFeelsOne DayScientistLustChemistryMechanicDifferentiate Author:Jim Goad
“I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it... And I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it - except, they will destroy our economy.” WayBelieveHumansLawEconomyActivityScientistClimateDramaticProposeHuman ActivityPortrayingDramatic Change Author:Marco Rubio
“I think more and more scientists are becoming convinced that it's very likely that life forms of some kind exist all around the universe not so far from us.” ThinkingKindFormUniverseBecomingScientistConvinced Author:Ron Howard
“We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!” GuyForgetScientistMusicalInventionPhonograph Author:will.i.am
“There are things I believe in to a certain extent, as much as a scientist would. And I like, through the means of entertainment, to explore those ideas.” BelieveMeanIdeasCertainI BelieveScientistEntertainmentI Believe In Author:Reggie Watts
“The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years of the 21st Century. They had built institutions filled with lawyers and scientists well suited to lobby policy makers who basically shared their world view. This worked well when liberals controlled the Congress and much of the federal bureaucracy, and when the politics of the time were more supportive of active government efforts to regulate the economy and clean up the environment.” WorldYearsWellsGovernmentViewsEffortEconomyEnvironmentModernCenturyPolicyMovementBuiltScientistInstitutionsFilledCleanEnvironmentalCongressActiveSeedsLawyerControlledMakers21st CenturyBureaucracySupportiveGreat SuccessWorld ViewPolicy Makers Author:Ted Nordhaus
“We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of 2007, our best scientists, led by NASA's Jim Hansen, went back to work and produced a series of papers showing that with more than 350 ppm (parts per million) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we couldn't have a planet "similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted."” KnowsEarthLinesMillionsPlanetsCivilizationPaperSummerRedScientistSeriesClimateIceAtmosphereCarbonPapersRapidsAdaptedNasaArcticCarbon DioxideBack To WorkRed Lines Author:Bill McKibben
“It's off the charts - and if you don't believe the scientists, ask the insurance industry, the people we pay to analyze risk in our society.” PeopleIfsBelieveAsksPayRiskIndustryScientistDon't BelieveOur Society Author:Bill McKibben
“A reporter told me it is very rare to see a woman of my age in the movies. Right! In the movies! But they have been for so long in very serious and important positions in life: scientists, prime ministers, candidates to be the president.” LongHas BeensImportantAgePresidentPositionSeriousScientistMinistersCandidatesPrimeReportersPrime Minister Author:Sonia Braga
“As a health scientist at Columbia University, Les Roberts, pointed out, sooner or later people are going to be looking at a child in a wheelchair suffering from polio and will say 'the Americans did that to him'. So they continue policies which have similar effects i.e. organising the Taliban. This will come back to them too.” PeopleChildrenSufferingEffectsPolicyScientistUniversitySooner Or LaterTalibanColumbiaWheelchairsPolioColumbia University Author:Noam Chomsky
“The scientists at CERN were actually surprised that people commented on this. Reportedly Fabiola Gianotti, the coordinator of the CERN program to find the Higgs Boson, was asked why she had selected Comic Sans. She simply said, "Because I like it."” PeopleSaidProgramScientistComicSelectedCoordinatorSimply SaidCernComic Sans Author:Michael Bierut
“I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes from. Now [Francis] Collins says, "Well, God did it. And God needs no explanation because God is outside all this." Well, what an incredible evasion of the responsibility to explain. Scientists don't do that. Scientists say, "We're working on it. We're struggling to understand."” ThinkingNeedsWellsMotherFatherResponsibilityStruggleHonestScientistIncrediblesExplanationQuestsCopMother And FatherEvasionImprobability Author:Richard Dawkins
“Scientists can have their judgment clouded by their professional aspirations. And the pure truth of faith, which you can think of as this clear spiritual water, is poured into rusty vessels called human beings, and so sometimes the benevolent principles of faith can get distorted as positions are hardened.” ThinkingHumansSometimesSpiritualWaterHuman BeingsPrinciplesClearPositionPureJudgmentScientistAspirationVesselBenevolentHardenedClouded Author:Richard Dawkins
“I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing in conflict between agreeing with Richard [Dawkins] in practically all of his conclusions about the natural world, and also saying that I am still able to accept and embrace the possibility that there are answers that science isn't able to provide about the natural world - the questions about why instead of the questions about how. I'm interested in the whys.” WorldStillsAbleNaturalAnswersAcceptingCenturyPossibilityConflictScientistEmbraceBelieverConclusionQuartersNatural WorldAbsolutely Nothing Author:Richard Dawkins
“I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.” ThinkingWaySpiritualAbilityAnswersScientistCompromiseRealms Author:Richard Dawkins
“When you look at the way the pyramids are made, with many chambers that are hermetically sealed, they would have to be that way for a reason. And, you know, various scientists have said, well, you know, there were alien beings that came down, and they had special knowledge, and that's how they were - you know, it doesn't require an alien being when God is with you.” KnowsWayWellsLooksMadeSaidReasonSpecialScientistDown AndVariousAliensChamberPyramidsGod Is With You Author:Benjamin Carson
“While researching the project [The Fourth Phase] I stumbled across this amazing research by a scientist called Dr Gerard Pollack who had done studies on what he called a 'fourth phase' of water.” DoneWaterStudyProjectsResearchScientistFourthPhasesDrs Author:Travis Rice