"A scientist is just a kid who never grew up."
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"Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing."
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"The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals."
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"Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist."
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"When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people."
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"Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists."
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"I wish there would be more movies about scientists."
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"One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith."
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"I am not a scientist, but I don't need to be."
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"There is no debate among any statured scientists of what is happening. The only debate is the rate at which it is happening."
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"Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself."
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"I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough."
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"Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution."
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"I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist."
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"If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise."
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"There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion."
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"A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said], "And the, um, a microwave, uh," you know, then you don't sound right, but if you can just get it out without stumbling then you're going to sound fine."
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"Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians."
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"I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better."
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