Non Scientists Quotes

#1. Since the topic is science, the non scientists don't get a vote. We shouldn't decide everything by polling the masses. This is the fallacy called Argumentum Ad Numerum, the idea that something is true because great number believe it, as in EAT SHIT, twenty trillions flies can't be wrong!

Bill Maher

#2. Vienna is relatively small. And it had wonderful salons, opportunities for people to get together. There was a lot of interaction between scientists and non-scientists, between Jews and non-Jews, between artists, writers and scientists, including medical scientists.

Eric Kandel

#3. Throw enough scientific gibberish at non-scientists and they always faltered.

Nancy Kress

#4. So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.

Kitty Ferguson

#5. There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

Bill Maher

#6. Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly great programmers are like great poets or great mathematicians - they can achieve in a few lines what lesser mortals can only approach in three volumes

John Naughton

#7. We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in really concrete ways to people - in ways that kids can understand and non-scientists can understand.

Thomas Friedman

#8. Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

Miguel De Icaza

#9. Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.

Christopher Moore

#10. There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.

Stephen Hawking

#11. To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.

E. O. Wilson

#12. The business of raising animals for food (with its continuous heavy waste stream of methane and nitrous oxide - leading global warming gases) is responsible for about 18% of global warming. Some scientists actually say the number is closer to 50%.

Kathy Freston

#13. Billions of people, including many scientists, continue to use religious scripture as a source of authority, but these texts are no longer a source of creativity.

Yuval Noah Harari

#14. As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.

Vannevar Bush

#15. It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely.

Mario Bunge

#16. Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.

Aubrey De Grey

#17. Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

Kenneth G. Wilson

#18. I will die the way I learned to live. Fully aware. At peace. With a heart so full of love that even as it slows, it is still full.
Because I know something the Scientists refuse to acknowledge.
Death is only the beginning.

Krista McGee

#19. Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

Russell Baker

#20. Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

Daniel Kahneman

#21. You'll notice something interesting about the way scientists think: they don't start with data. They start with a hypothesis. Then they go to the data.

John Braddock

#22. The scientific analysis that is supposed to provide our Governor the facts and information he needs to make a crucial decision was crafted with the guidance of the gas industry, not of the state's scientists.

Sandra Steingraber

#23. For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

Rebecca Skloot

#24. He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able to fix it.

Hope Jahren

#25. The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not a prejudice that governed science from the beginning, but a lesson that has been learned through centuries of experience in the study of nature.

Steven Weinberg

#26. The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That's a legacy that began with the Inquisition, which considered non-Christian spiritual inquiry as blasphemous.

David O. Russell

#27. Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.

Aubrey De Grey

#28. 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.

Karl Popper

#29. Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.

John Phillips

#30. Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.

Stephen Colbert

#31. Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ...

Albert Einstein

#32. We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!

Nina Hagen

#33. Science is not always what scientists do.

J. Allen Hynek

#34. Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.

Noam Chomsky

#35. Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Edward De Bono

#36. We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

Alan Alda

#37. The brain, like it or not, is a machine. Scientists have come to that conclusion, not because they are mechanistic killjoys, but because they have amassed evidence that every aspect of consciousness can be tied to the brain. - STEVEN PINKER

Michio Kaku

#38. Academics and scientists too easily enjoy the role of secular priesthood given them in the nineteenth century by T. H. Huxley in particular.

Simon James

#39. Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#40. In order to approximate dinosaurian physiology, the trio of scientists carried out the unenviable task of sticking thermometers in the cloacae of American alligators.

Brian Switek

#41. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

Frank Herbert

#42. I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis ... This time it's us that's doing it.

Frans Lanting

#43. If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.

Rita Dove

#44. Magic is magic as long as humans can explain it logically!

Asse Sauga

#45. The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories, workings by scientists, plans to develop long range ballistic missiles.

Tony Blair

#46. The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions

Fritjof Capra

#47. There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.

Samuel Butler

#48. Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.

George Carlin

#49. The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

Daniel Goleman

#50. There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.

Linus Pauling

#51. That's another pitfall of reductionism: Until scientists have the means to isolate and measure things, they insist those things don't and can't exist, and anyone who says otherwise is ignorant an superstitious.

T. Colin Campbell

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

Susan Faludi

#53. In my experience, if people don't have a sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists, either.

Andre Geim

#54. Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troubling concern of our society is whether men of different races can sit together at a lunch counter.

Robert Kennedy

#55. The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

Wellington Mara

#56. For many scientists less divinely gifted than Einstein,the chief reward for being a scientist is not the power and the money but the chance of catching a glimpse of the transcendent beauty of nature.

Freeman Dyson