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• As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.

  Robert Barany

  Idaho, Two, Research

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• If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists should be heard with specially close attention. Biologists work very close to the frontier between bewilderment and understanding.
  Biology is complex, messy and richly various, like real life; it travels faster nowadays than physics or chemistry (which is just as well, since it has so much farther to go), and it travels nearer to the ground. It should therefore give us a specially direct and immediate insight into science in the making.

  Peter Medawar

  Real, Science, Giving

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very preceisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Imagination, Creative

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.63, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The unprecedented development of science and technology... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today.

  Robert Platt

  Country, Science, Technology

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• The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Science, Views, Long

  "Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe". www.locusmag.com. September 1998.

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• Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Prayer, Miracle

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph. . . . Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Faith, Fall, Sleep

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• When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Artist, Practice

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2014). “BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health”, p.9, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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• I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home.

  Frederick Sanger

  Love, Peace, Home

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• If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

  Evelyn Waugh

  Science, Politician, Should

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

  Laozi

  Change, Artist, Intuition

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• Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining something I don't understand myself.' This relates to my game: I didn't understand anything!

  Vassily Ivanchuk

  Games, Suffering, Needs

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• I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist.

  Tara Reid

  Rocks, Looks, Stupid Celebrity

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• Back in 1792, Dr. Benjamin Banneker, the famed African-American inventor and scientist in Washington, proposed a Department of Peace for the new Nation to his friends George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. His prophetic suggestion was not implemented; but now, more than 200 years later, the need for a Peace Department is too compelling to ignore.

  John Conyers

  Years, African American, Suggestions

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• I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons - and, for that matter, other weapons of potential mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons.

  Hans Bethe

  Country, Creating, Mass Destruction

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Journal, 51:6, 3, November, 1995.

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• Today we are rightly in an era of disarmament and dismantlement of nuclear weapons. But in some countries nuclear weapons development still continues. Whether and when the various Nations of the World can agree to stop this is uncertain. But individual scientists can still influence this process by withholding their skills.

  Hans Bethe

  Country, Nuclear Disarmament, Skills

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Journal, 51:6, 3, November, 1995.

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• Environmental scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The only way to get rid of this danger is to abolish all nuclear weapons

  Tadatoshi Akiba

  War, Views, Environmental

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• Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

  Owen Chamberlain

  Marijuana, Generations, Gone

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• If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

  Peter Medawar

  Cutting, Luck, Ears

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.86, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

  Michael Crichton

  Literature, Belief, Wallets

  "Aliens Cause Global Warming". Caltech Michelin's Lecture at the California Institute of Technology, January 17, 2003.

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• It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

  Loren Eiseley

  Art, Men, Tragedy

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• We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Magic, Littles

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• So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor is it like a scientist testing a theory. This is a unique art form within the world of rational science. We are trying to craft a "poem of reason" that explains fully and clearly and satisfies the pickiest demands of logic, while at the same time giving us goosebumps.

  Paul Lockhart

  Art, Math, Unique

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• The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.

  Joseph Campbell

  Moving, Doubt, Atheism

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• We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority of scientific contributions, if scientist X hadn't achieved it that year, scientist Y would have achieved the same result or something very similar soon thereafter.

  Jared Diamond

  Science, Reality, Discovery

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