Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change.
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin's insights not only changed his contemporaries' view of the world but also continue to be a source of great intellectual stimulation for scientists and nonscientists alike.
I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.
All the scientists who are working on solving the problem of curing paralysis say that it won't do you any good if you don't keep your body in shape.
Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or policed at limits that still pose serious risks.
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.
I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore the ocean and work with scientists.
In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.
A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.
