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• All scientists are mad scientists.

  Seanan McGuire

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• Scientists who play by someone else’s rules don’t have much chance of making discoveries.

  Jack Horner

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  I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

  Walter Isaacson

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• There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.

  Sam Harris

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• I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can’t say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.

  Sam Harris

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• As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn’t make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

  Nicholas Stern

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• The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, ‘Global warming is a hoax,’ he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.

  Bernie Sanders

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• Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?

  David R. Brower

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• A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

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• The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they’re made things.

  Bruce Jackson

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• God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don’t know what they’re talking about because they weren’t there. They can’t speculate about the origins of life because they weren’t there.

  Pat Robertson

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• Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

  Bill Vaughan

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• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

  Frank Zappa

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• Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

  David Suzuki

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• The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.

  Barry Commoner

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• As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

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• They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn’t understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.

  George Woodcock

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• A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

  George Wald

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• As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women’s mental health: employment improves it.

  Susan Faludi

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• And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.

  George Stigler

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