Scientists are human, they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.
Cyril Ponnamperuma

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
Arthur Koestler

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.
Martin Fleischmann

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
Donald Johanson

Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
Ed Markey

Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
Haldan Keffer Hartline

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
James A. Michener

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.
Jonathan Katz

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
Carl Lewis

Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell.
Eliot Engel

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
Dave Barry

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.
Theodosius Dobzhansky

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
Walter Gilbert

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.
Kenneth G. Wilson

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.
Donella Meadows

So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.
Uri Geller

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
John Charles Polanyi

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.
Joseph Crowley

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