“A lot of environmental and biological science depends on technology to progress. Partly I'm talking about massive server farms that help people crunch genetic data - or atmospheric data. But I also mean the scientific collaborations that the Internet makes possible, where scientists in India and Africa can work with people in Europe and the Americas to come up with solutions to what are, after all, global problems.” PeopleMeanHelpingProblemTalkingTechnologyProgressDependsInternetSolutionsEuropeScientistIndiaEnvironmentalCome UpDataMassiveFarmsCollaborationServerCrunchBiological Science Author:Annalee Newitz
“When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.” PeopleThinkingFirstsStillsDoneCharacterStrongStudyCrazyLowsScientistNotionInsightScalesMinistersVery StrongDiggingLarge Scale Author:L. Todd Rose
“The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That's a legacy that began with the Inquisition, which considered non-Christian spiritual inquiry as blasphemous.” PeopleChristianSpiritualConsciousnessSmartScientistLegacyInvestigationInquirySmart PeopleInquisition Author:David O. Russell
“Everybody doesn't want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.” PeopleWantDesireProtectComputerScientist Author:Tim Cook
“With space travel, [it's] no different. You know, in 1990 I read the name Virgin Galactic Airways. Loved the name. And set out to try to find an engineer or rocket scientist in the world who could build a safe, reusable rocket that could take people to and from space and we could start a whole new era of commercial space travel.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingDifferentWholeNamesSpaceSafeScientistErasEngineersVirginsRocketsSpace TravelNew Era Author:Richard Branson
“Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.” PeopleGroupsInfluencePoliticianMusicianScientistMakersInfluencing People Author:Paul Watson
“We've got to set up in our own community our scientists and scholars that can check what is going into our people.” PeopleCommunityScientistChecksScholar Author:Louis Farrakhan
“This is really funny, but we did a study of the occupations of female characters on TV, and there are so many female forensic scientists on TV because of all the CSI shows and Bones and whatever. I don't have to lobby anybody to add more female forensic scientists as role models. There's plenty.In real life, the people going into that field now are something like two-thirds women.” PeopleTwoRealCharacterShowsRolesStudyFieldsTvsModelsFemaleScientistThirdsAddBonesReal LifePlentyOccupationRole ModelsFemale CharactersForensicsCsi Author:Geena Davis
“In my teaching and consulting practice, I encourage people to learn to experiment with confidence and to see themselves as scientists in the laboratory of their lives, continually trying new ways to pursue what matters most to them and to the people who depend on them. Smart, small wins are crucial to this approach, as is devoting time and attention to reflecting on what works and what doesn't.” PeopleWayTryingMatterWinningAttentionPracticeTeachingDependsApproachSmartScientistExperimentsPursueCrucialNew WaysWhat MattersReflectingLaboratoryConsultingSmall Wins Author:Stewart D. Friedman
“Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth.” PeopleHumansTruthCommonTechnologyImagineDiscoveryMercyScientistStressCurrentsDecadesAccessCommon SenseMessAccomplishmentEfficientQuestsContinuityScience And TechnologyFacilitateMethodologySurpassing Author:Doc Childre
“...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young...there is no mastery, old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature...Its a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.” PeopleKnowsDoneFormYoungNextCan DoWealthStepsHistoryRichHumilityDisciplineScientistMasteryIgnoredYou Can Do ItRich PeopleNext StepsInherited Wealth Author:Michael Crichton
“Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were before.” PeopleScienceGroupsModernPrideScientistPsychologist Book:Science is a sacred cow Source: Science is a sacred cow
“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'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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause that he and some friends decided they would blow up a building at the University of Wisconsin, in which they said research was being done to help the war against the Vietnamese. What they blew up at three or four in the morning was a young scientist, who was married and had a couple of kids, who wasn't working on war stuff at all. And he was killed.” PeopleYearsSaidWarDoneHelpingKidsYoungThreeCausesStuffMorningFourBuildingCoupleMarriedResearchDecidedScientistUniversityBlowConvincedRighteousnessAnti WarThey SaidBeing DoneArmstrongWisconsinVietnamese Author:Nat Hentoff
“I think we knew that this would be just like raising the kids together, this would be a fun thing to do in partnership. And you know, we're so lucky because we get to hire in very smart people. We get to partner with governments like the Canadian Development Organization - CIDA, USAID - tonnes of scientists doing this work. This is fascinating.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGovernmentWould BeKidsTogetherFunDevelopmentLuckySmartOrganizationScientistPartnersThings To DoFascinatingPartnershipSmart PeopleSo LuckyVery SmartFun ThingsUsaid Author:Bill Gates
“Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest price, but buy for those people these medicines, we see scientists everywhere coming up with those new tools.” PeopleCompanyCreatingToolsScientistMedicineFundLowestVaccinesCreating Things Author:Bill Gates
“One contribution scientists can and should make is to be clear and explicit about the limits of scientific understanding, a matter that is particularly important in societies where people are trained to defer to alleged experts.” PeopleShouldImportantMatterUnderstandingClearLimitsScientistExpertsContributionExplicit Author:Noam Chomsky
“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
“The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself. It's different than a scientist, who is simply wanting to learn.” PeopleIfsWantFirstsDifferentScientistAdventurerEverestMt Everest Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I urge people to be a scientist about what they want and ask themselves why they want it so badly. Perhaps they are chasing an illusory dream. But if you want to learn, to expand, to be of service, you will find a way.” PeopleIfsWayWantDreamAsksScientistUrgesChasingIllusory Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“Historically, very few discoveries were made out of thin air. Most of the greatest insights depended upon the intellectual ecology in which the scientists lived. A certain critical mass of "new findings" occurred, and bright people all over the world found out about it, and several read the tea leaves the same way.” PeopleWorldWayMadeCertainFoundAirFindingsMassIntellectualDiscoveryScientistInsightCriticalTeaEcologyThin AirCritical MassTea Leaves Author:John Medina
“It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of scientists, well, that gets scientists worried. And when public officials talk about alternative facts, people who have devoted their careers to trying to uncover facts are dismayed.” PeopleTryingWellsFactsUnderstandingCareersPositionScientistAppreciationAlternativesWorriedOfficialsDevotedDismayedPublic Officials Author:Rush D. Holt, Jr.
“In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, which was brutal and killed hundreds of thousands of people - it was the Soviet Union's Vietnam. I'm just saying that now, in these new wars, whole countries have slipped into mayhem - the women have just been pushed back into their burqas - and not by choice.” PeopleWarCountryWholeChoicesDirectorsDoctorsScientistUnionsIraqOccupationMuseumsAfghanistanVietnamSovietBrutalSoviet UnionSaddamHusseinJust SayingMayhemBurqa Author:Arundhati Roy
“Sometimes people feel mind is merely the - in some animal, the energy or something from the brain. Now there are little sort of curiosities or I think doubt sometimes a sheer sort of mental attitude, some change in our brain. So these fields, now scientists are showing some interest.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMindLittlesSometimesEnergyInterestAnimalBrainAttitudeDoubtFieldsScientistCuriositySheerMental Attitude Author:Dalai Lama
“Some autistic people have savant skills. All autistic people do not have savant skills. Autism is a very variable disorder varying all the way from Einstein, emollient scientist, just a little bit of the trait, many scientist and engineers, down to somebody that's going to remain nonverbal.” PeopleWayLittlesBitsSkillsLittle BitScientistDisorderTraitsEngineersAutismVariablesAutisticNonverbalSavantsScientists And Engineers Author:Temple Grandin
“I feel very strongly that if you got rid of all of the autistic genetics you're not going to have any scientists. There'd be no computer people. You'd lose a lot of artists and musicians. There'd be a horrible price to pay.” PeopleIfsFeelsArtistLosesPayComputerMusicianScientistHorribleVery StrongGeneticsAutistic Author:Temple Grandin
“We are seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the Book of Revelation. These climate-related extreme weather events have convinced the vast majority of people that the scientists have been right for a long time. We have to address this.” PeopleLongHas BeensBookNightSeeingEventsTelevisionNewsLong TimeScientistMajorityClimateExtremesConvincedWeatherRelatedRevelationsAddressesEvery NightTelevision NewsBook Of RevelationExtreme Weather Author:Al Gore
“There was a show in which these scientists shared the secrets of the world's oldest living people, people still functioning past 100 years-old. They found that they exercised everyday, they ate in proportion, that they had a social network of family and friends, and that they had some sort of faith. So, that's what I'm doing now, very consciously. Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.” PeoplePastSecretWeekScientistEverydayWork OutFamily And FriendsSocial Network Author:Beverly Johnson
“Every time a journalist will say: "Can women be funny? Can women be pilots? Can women be scientists?" It's less of a question and more of a statement after a while that makes you believe that maybe we can't. I think that's dangerous. I was really happy that I didn't have those barriers, but now I recognize the barriers of many other people.” PeopleThinkingBelieveDangerousScientistJournalistBarriersReally Happy Author:Katherine Ryan
“Katherine Johnson passion for math, the way I light up when I get asked questions about acting is the way her eyes danced when she talked about math and how she wanted people to fall in love with numbers the way that she did. If I had a teacher like that, I could have been a rocket scientist.” PeopleEyeFallPassionActingTeacherScientistFalling In LoveMath Author:Taraji P. Henson
“I don't think I would ever be a doctor, but the reason I majored in science was because you could become a civil engineer, you could become a biologist, you could become a computer scientist - that was the point of it. I had no idea what I wanted to do. In my last two years of high school here happened to be these few scripts that I really responded to. Eventually, I landed the job, and that was something that I felt transcended whatever other people would think of me.” PeopleThinkingReasonSchoolComputerHigh SchoolScientistThink Of MeBiologist Author:Bill Skarsgard
“I'm not the "not-working" type. I derive pleasure from my work. Work gives me relaxation too. Every moment I am thinking of something new: making a new plan, new ways to work. In the same way that a scientist draws pleasure from long hours in the laboratory, I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is sufficient for me.” PeopleThinkingGivingLongMomentsTogetherHoursPleasureScientistSomething NewRelaxationLaboratory Author:Narendra Modi
“See, I am the mayor of Realville, and science is not up to a vote. It either is or isn't. Whatever it is, it is or isn't, but it's not up to a vote. Global warming doesn't exist because a "consequences of scientists" agree. Manmade global warming either is happening or it isn't, but it isn't up to a vote. But it is being presented to you as a consequences of scientists. Therefore, the science is not settled. Besides that, we all know that it's a hoax now. It's just some people don't want to accept that, but it is.” PeopleAcceptingConsequenceVoteScientistAgreeGlobal Warming Author:Rush Limbaugh
“People think with climate change what's going to happen is things are just going to get hotter. But that isn't really the whole story at all. One of the things that has happened in the past when the climate has changed a lot is that the glaciers melt, and so the weight on the tectonic crust is different, and that's the definition of an earthquake. If the tectonic plates are springing up or being pressed down, that's when earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen. So every scientist I spoke to who had studied this thinks that we're in for a wild time.” PeopleThinkingDifferentPastChangedScientistClimate Change Author:Susan Casey
“Most people talk as if Miami and Bangladesh still have a chance of surviving: most of the scientists I spoke with assume we'll lose them within the century, even if we stop burning fossil fuel in the next decade.” PeopleChanceScientistAssumingSurvivingFossil Fuel Author:Al Gore
“People often think of artists and scientists as being diametrically opposed, but we both believe something is possible. We have a hypothesis and then we do everything to make it possible, but we don't know if it's possible! All the scientists I've worked with have a natural, easy fit with me. The solutions they find are truly creative. All scientists, in some way, are artists.” PeopleThinkingBelieveArtistEasyNaturalCreativeFitSolutionsScientist Author:Mira Calix
“I'm comparing Americans to international peers in terms of GDP, educational system - the sort of benchmarks we used to designate a so-called developed society. In that sense, we are outliers. Are we suckers? Yes, but it's not just that. That puts too fine a point on what I am saying. We're not idiots and victims. It's about us as a people, compared with, say, Canadians, believing whatever we believe because, well, we're Americans, we feel this way without regard for what scholars and scientists say.” PeopleBelieveTermScientistVictimEducationalIdiotCompareScholarSucker Author:Kurt Andersen
“The scientists who made the atomic bomb are, in my sense, people with a tragic destiny. You know, there was the US race with Nazi Germany and good evidence that the Germans were more advanced in nuclear physics, and we had to get the bomb first. But then there was the use of that dreadful weapon, or instrument of genocide, and many of the more sensitive scientists turned quickly into anti - nuclear people - and very effective ones.” PeopleDestinyEvidenceScientistPhysicsSensitiveTragicGenocideNaziAtomic Bomb Author:Robert Jay Lifton
“Do I think that people should in the best of all possible worlds have to go to jail for wanting the US government to pay attention to the warnings of scientists about climate change? Not really. I mean, in a rational world, if all the scientists said, "The worst thing that ever happened is about to happen and here's what you should do to stop it," you would expect any rational system to say, "Oh, sure, OK, let's do something about it." But that's not the world we live in. In the world we live in, you do need people willing to stand up, fight, march and sometimes go to jail.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanSometimesFightingAttentionWorstScientistClimate ChangeRationalPay AttentionMarch Author:Bill McKibben
“It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be spiritual people. Not only that, but in the case of climate change - a scientific issue with strong moral implications and difficult decisions to be made - it's essential to connect the science to our values. And for many of us, our values come from our faith.” PeopleSpiritualValuesStrongDifficultDecisionCommonMoralPerceptionScientistClimate ChangeScience And Religion Author:Katharine Hayhoe
“When you're in a room with twenty people who've all got the True Theory of the universe, it's difficult to know what to do. And the paradox is that so much important science is now being done by huge teams. With Higgs boson, for example, it's estimated there were around ten thousand scientists and engineers involved in building the machines that made this discovery possible.” PeopleImportantDoneUniverseDifficultTeamBuildingScientistParadox Author:Margaret Wertheim
“A recent review of different agricultural options for the future was conducted by a panel of experts. The scientists posed the question: How are we going to feed the world when there are nine billion people on it, as there will be by 2050? And the answer they came up with was industrial agriculture won't work and genetic engineering won't work and the solution is going to be sustainable, and going to ecological kinds of farming that are based on local environmental conditions that work with local ecosystems available to develop a richer kind of farming technology.” PeopleWorldKindDifferentTechnologySolutionsScientistEnvironmentalFarmingEcological Author:Raj Patel
“Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct. It depends what "eventually" means. But the idea that were going to be around for the rest of global history...I don't think there's any scientist who would suggest that is true. It could be millions of years from now. We may leave descendants that are humanlike.” PeopleThinkingMeanScientistRadical Author:Elizabeth Kolbert
“I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to.” PeopleSchoolViewsParticularScientistMajorityEducatedOverwhelmingExposed Author:Thabo Mbeki