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"Scientist alone is true poet."
"Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world."
"Science is but an image of the truth."
"Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning."
"This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is."
"I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that."
"Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?"
"If there are lessons to be drawn from the sciences, then that should be the concern of everyone, including scientists to the extent that they can make a contribution."
"Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist."
"Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan."
"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."
"I am not a scientist."
"If something comes up that is completely freaky, it's spiritual-looking to the scientist, the first explanation is not going to be that it's God, because the history of that has failed. It would have to be, like, the hundredth explanation."
"My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers."
"The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge."
"Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!"
"Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them."
"Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions."
"I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing."