Quotes for All
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing. Galen Rowell
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap. Ezra Pound
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be Evelyn Waugh
We have launched an international campaign to legalize coca leaves, and we want the United Nations to remove coca from its list of toxic substances. Scientists proved long ago that coca leaves are not toxic. Evo Morales
Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn’t mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease. Evgeny Morozov
The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve. Evelyn Glennie
I believe in truths, but I don’t believe in the Truth. Furthermore, I think that vision of an underlying Truth, with as capital T, that scientists are privy to, has been a very counterproductive vision. It has served scientists very well, but what it has done, above all, is encloses the world of science and … Read more
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle. Evan Esar
My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people – writers, scientists, artists. Eva Zeisel
I learned very early on that it’s necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, ‘We shouldn’t be teaching creationism.’ Being right doesn’t mean it’ll pass. Eugenie Scott