Sol Robeson: As soon as you discard scientific rigor, you're no longer a mathematician, you're a numerologist.
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.
The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting.
What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.
We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.
If you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built.
But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.
The truth is out there.
There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be a...
A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.
The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one.
I cannot speak truth without poetry, because truth is beauty.
