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When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of my world.
Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.
My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.
Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.
There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.
My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.
I still meet old-school scientists who are like, 'Oh honey, women aren't good at science.' You kind of dismiss them as insane.
We must give scientists the opportunity through funding and time to pursue curiosity-based, long-term, basic-science research.
One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.
Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.
I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.
Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.
You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up.
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.
There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists.
My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.
Junk DNA - or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA - remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life.
I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.
I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory. It was us.
Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.
I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can remember.
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
People back down because the libel system is so utterly hostile to journalists, bloggers, scientists. The smart thing is not to fight.
I don't know what country's willing to export - for free - the computer scientists, engineers, doctors. It's hard to me to understand.
I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.
Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.
A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.
Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.
I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
'Black Panther' had a whole cast of beautiful black brilliance. Black scientists. Black presidents. The style. The technology. The color.
A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as if they were doing art.
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.
Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea.
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do.
Individual scientists cannot do much on their own. Heads of nations, corporates, and economic giants should recognise the criticality of it.
The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at that moment.
All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.