But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.
Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very fact that they have to be drilled shows that they are alien to the natural workings of the language system. One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology.
God is a scientist, not a magician.
In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.
What is a Gallagher Girl? She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy. . . a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.
The scientists at CERN were actually surprised that people commented on this. Reportedly Fabiola Gianotti, the coordinator of the CERN program to find the Higgs Boson, was asked why she had selected Comic Sans. She simply said, "Because I like it. "
We've got to set up in our own community our scientists and scholars that can check what is going into our people.
Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.
A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.
Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true.
The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
I think I was a born scientist.
Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.
There will be well-testable theories, hardly testable theories, and non-testable theories. Those which are non-testable are of no interest to empirical scientists. They may be described as metaphysical.
Isn't it amazing what scientists can accomplish when no one makes them stop?