Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could b...
Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are ...
What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.
To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.
I was going to be a scientist.
As scientists, we need to not be afraid of the truth.
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.
A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.
I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
Science is what scientists do.
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
The true scientist lets truth emerge.
I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.
The scientist in me worries that my happiness is nothing more than a symptom of bipolar disease, hypergraphia from a postpartum disorder. The rest of me thinks that artificially splitting off the scientist in me from the writer in me is actually a ki...
When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest and most contagious of joys and their grief the deepest and most devastating. Their passions b...
Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand the language of feelings, and that's why we form deep and enduring social bonds with many other bein...
Everyone worked day and night, Monday through Saturday. Oppenheimer insisted people take Sundays off to rest and recharge. Scientists fished for trout in nearby streams, or climbed mountains and discussed physics while watching the sunrise. "This is ...
Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
