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“Project-oriented contests such as Intel aren't measures of scientific brilliance”
Norman Matloff (1948–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We, the emigrants from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and – allow me to say it – Egypt, our country will always love you and stay close to our country and our origins. There are numerous men and women that can give the religious impulses and with scientific and economic generosity in the countries can be active, welcome us with open arms.”
Georges Kahhalé Zouhaïraty (born 1938) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East (October 2010)
“When a scientific principle puts on the toga of social dignity, it turns itself into a bell or a parrot; such phantoms have always been the most dangerous enemies of reason.”
Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Aristocrats of Spirit, in: Eseji IV, p.76 (Zora, 1963)
“... I do not conceive the scientific or mathematical temperament as in any way final. Large elements of life, the artistic, the social, the personal, it cannot handle, and when it tries to do so it is apt to come to grief, and this quite apart from religion.”
John Neville Figgis (1866–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The increased protectism causes the deep anxiousness. The achievements of the globalization process is not allocated equally among countries in the region, cooperatives and population community. The scientific and technological advances can increase the development distance between economies and cooperatives as well as the rich and poor gap between people classes in the region.”
Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh (born 1959) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Welcome speech at the 10th Asia-Pacific Cooperative Ministers’ Conference (2017)
“In this case it was converting waste into food, creating food for the community, but also doing something that no one else in that community was doing. We were unique in that time, doing something that was highly scientific without having studied at all. In my case I'd only done five years of primary-level education. It was like magic”
Chido Govera (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Obviously, we are leaving the humanitarian and scientific plan to risk a business whose commercial aspects seem to lack sufficient bases, and which, on top of that, seems fraught with national and international difficulties.”
Jules Greindl (1835–1917) first seen 1835 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 8. The Short Colonial Careers of Jules Greindl, Eugène père Beyens, Eugène Napoléon…
“Such an ideology has always been available... It is embodied either in the true Christian or the true Buddhist faith, but it has never yet been put into practice. It could provide the scientific and practical basis for world regeneration. It embodies the principle of unity, of sharing and of cooperation.”
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These councils will eventually work in collaboration with each other so that their plans dovetail and cohere from the start, and no aspects of living are forgotten... in time a scientific formula for their organization will be discovered, and a pattern into which everything will fall in its natural place.”
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The reform of training, personnel system, scientific research and the management system of colleges and departments will strengthen the endogenous driving force for the healthy development of universities.”
Liu Yandong (born 1945) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 刘延东强调：加快建设中国特色现代大学制度" (23 August 2017)
“Our government's program says Lithuania wants a more intense economic, cultural and scientific relationship with Taiwan. (But) I want to emphasize that this step does not mean any conflict or disagreement with the 'One China' policy.”
Ingrida Šimonytė (born 1974) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ingrida Šimonytė (2021) cited in: "China downgrades diplomatic ties with Lithuania over Taiwan row" in BBC News, 22 December 2021.
“The scientific facts are one thing; the social choices and consequences are another. We need to consider both”
Bonnie Henry (born 1966) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her experience with the 2003 SARS outbreak
“As three of Meyer’s scientific critics have noted, “‘An unknown intelligent designer did something, somewhere, somehow, for no apparent reason’ is not a model.”
Chris Mooney (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Journalists should treat fringe scientific claims with considerable skepticism and find out what major peer-reviewed papers or assessments have to say about them. Moreover, they should adhere to the principle that the more outlandish or dramatic the claim, the more skepticism it warrants.”
Chris Mooney (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The creationist “scientific” arguments for a young Earth are absurd, I and other authors have dealt with them at length elsewhere, and they do not merit further attention here.”
Brent Dalrymple (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But the late-nineteenth-century advances in both scientific understanding and applied technology posed a particularly formidable challenge to orthodox religion because, taken together, they offered a logical explanation of processes once thought to be inexplicable curses or miracles. As understanding of natural causes expanded, the need for supernatural explanations decreased.”
Susan Jacoby (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is also a connection between the antievolution campaign and the lamentable state of American scientific literacy.”
Susan Jacoby (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our Vietnamese nation has many good and heroic traditions over thousands of years. And for the past 77 years, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam, a revolutionary and scientific party founded and nurtured by President Hồ Chí Minh, our people have overcome a lot of difficulties, challenges and sacrifices to gain victories after victories, forming the present-day career.”
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (born 1949) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng’s online talk to Vietnamese people at home and abroad" (9 February 2007)
“If we can hook a front page reader who’s perusing an article about the race for the republican nomination, the Golden Globes, or even the NFL playoffs with a snappy title and then deliver on that promise of offering an eye-opening perspective on the way the universe works, I think we’ve done what we all want to do: make a small step toward increasing the scientific literacy of the public at large.”
Cara Santa Maria (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As an African American clinical psychologist and researcher, it has become evident that we have not been meaningfully included as research participants or researchers in scientific studies, and our voices have not been part of the conversation as these medicines move into mainstream mental health care.”
Monnica T. Williams wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Human beings worked constantly to make their gods unnecessary. He was an individual who made scientific measurements: one day time and perhaps also space would be measured and controlled by scales of measurements hitherto unknown. The supernatural was shadows dancing in the remains of a childhood fear of the dead.”
Henning Mankell (1948–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From my own experience-the combination of my scientific work and my personal drug use, I have learned that recreational drugs can be used safely to enhance many vital human activities.”
Carl Hart (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have expected my country, your country, to become the scientific Athens, but I don’t think that will be the case.”
Emma Tenayuca (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The tendency of some people to confound the woman question with the sex question evidences a lack of a scientific knowledge and appreciation of the fundamental principles of the two problems.”
Lena Morrow Lewis (1868–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“we see, essentially, the three ingredients necessary for the liberation of Puerto Rico. We see the necessity for a strong, disciplined, scientific party. We see the need for mass revolutionary movement of the people, and we see the need for a people's army to defend that party and that mass movement. Those are the three ingredients for Puerto Rican liberation and that's what we're trying to build.”
Juan González (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“we wanna build a scientific revolution. One that involves the masses of the people and doesn't permit the possibility of other oppressors rising up again as they did in the Soviet Union; as they have in all the Eastern supposedly socialist countries to oppress the people once again.”
Juan González (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today, adoption is accessible and on a wide scale women attain both professional success and a rich family life, contraceptives are more available and effective, and scientific advances show that an unborn child has taken on the human form and features months before viability”
Lynn Fitch (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“it is widely known — and discussed (although not in print) — that not among the least of those who have persecuted the poor law-breakers in this respect have rich law-breaking friends and do themselves break the law and benefit by the scientific knowledge they are instrumental in sending others to prison for disseminating.”
Rose Pastor Stokes (1879–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is it possible that according to the law of our economic autocracy to be poor is to be obscene and to have property is not to be obscene? Ah, but these propertyless agitators who are spreading this scientific knowledge among the poor and the propertyless must be suppressed. For it is the business of our greedy capitalist society to prevent the poor from regulating the size of their families”
Rose Pastor Stokes (1879–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I haven't fought the illness; it's still within me and will be forever. Hopefully, we'll find a miracle, a way to heal through scientific research, but I have to learn to live with it, I work on everything, from my toes to my knees, calves, fingers, singing, voice... It's the condition I have to learn to live with now, by stopping questioning myself.”
Celine Dion (born 1968) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Céline Dion On Her Return to the Stage: 'I Know That Nothing Will Stop Me' Canada Billboard (April 22, 2024).
“Kropotkin’s communism stems from two sources: on the one hand, from the study of economic phenomena and their historical development, and, on the other, from the social ideal of equality and freedom. His objective scientific research and his passionate search for a social formation into which maximum justice can be embodied consistently led him to the same solution: anarchist communism.”
Marie Goldsmith (1871–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“China’s scientific and technological progress will continue to be guided by the principle of openness, inclusiveness and mutual benefit for all. It will not only serve its own people, but also benefit the international community.”
Mao Ning (diplomat) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thanks to scientific and technological progress, reaching beyond the moon has become a reality. Humanity will continue to benefit from the noble endeavor of exploration and peaceful use of space.”
Mao Ning (diplomat) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's important for us as scientific researchers to engage in some dialogue with the people and Government to help create understanding of biotechnology issues and allay fears.”
Idah Sithole-Niang (born 1957) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prof Idah Sithole talks on New drive to promote biotechnology,(September 18,2013)
“The State Government arrived at the decision to set up a technical committee to address the sources of soot. after a detailed consideration of the report of the Scientific Committee.”
Roseline Konya wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The State Executive Council went ahead and appointed members of the Technical committee for purpose of the implementation of the report of the scientific committee.”
Roseline Konya wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You'd think that biologists, of all people, would have words for life. But in scientific language our terminology is used to define the boundaries of our knowing. What lies beyond our grasp remains unnamed.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A theory, to scientists, means something rather different from its popular use, which suggests something speculative or untested. A scientific theory is a cohesive body of knowledge, an explanation that is consistent among a range of cases and can allow you to predict what might happen in unknown situations.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I fear altogether too many scientists hide behind this notion that our objectivity will somehow be compromised by advocacy. I couldn’t disagree more…When we have the privilege of understanding how the living world works, who better than the scientific community to also stand up and tell this story? (The Guardian, 2024)”
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can’t think of a single scientific study in the last few decades that has demonstrated that plants or animals are dumber than we think. It’s always the opposite, right? What we’re revealing is the fact that they have a capacity to learn, to have memory. And we’re at the edge of a wonderful revolution in really understanding the sentience of other beings.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The scientific denial of immortality is based upon the admitted fact of the connection between mind and brain; whence it is assumed that the death of the brain must involve the death of that, whatever it be, which has been called the soul. This may indeed be true; but it is not necessarily or obviously true; it does not follow logically from the fact of the connection.”
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Currently, our development is focused on providing for people’s basic needs. Going forward, the focus will be shifted toward delivering a life of better quality for the people. In particular, we will enhance our capacity for scientific and technological innovation, build a modern industrial system, and transition toward green development.”
Li Qiang (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Acting remains my only great aspiration, and I invest all my energies in this. But, yes: there is a plan B. I'm in the fifth year of scientific high school and, after graduating, I'll enroll in criminology. I will study it mostly out of passion, because the subject fascinates me a lot. At worst, this will be my plan B.”
Ginevra Francesconi (born 2003) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I absolutely stand by my comment that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is not scientific. There is hardly any evidence to substantiate the theory. Great scientists of the world came out to say there is no evidence available in the world which can prove the theory of evolution is correct.”
Satya Pal Singh (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“WHY WRITE? Reasons to do : • Societal progress • Scientific progress • Enrich people's intellectual lives • Enrich your own intellectual life”
Natalie Wolchover wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A poem, a symphony, a painting, a mathematical truth, a new scientific fact, all bear in themselves all the justification that universities, colleges, and institutes of research need or require.”
Abraham Flexner (1866–1959) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Flexner, Abraham, The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge. Harper’s Magazine. Issue 179, June / November 1939, p. 550.
“Thus it becomes obvious that one must be wary in attributing scientific discovery wholly to any one person. Almost every discovery has a long and precarious history. Someone finds a bit here, another a bit there. A third step succeeds later and thus onward till a genius pieces the bits together and makes the decisive contribution.”
Abraham Flexner (1866–1959) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Flexner, Abraham, The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge. Harper’s Magazine. Issue 179, June / November 1939, p. 549.
“On the intellectual front, she corrected the erroneous notions that Africans did not have recordable history, projected by a chain of European generations who even manipulated scientific evidence to substantiate their racist claim. by Toyin Falola.”
Bolanle Awe (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was through this scientific exposure that I became very focused early in my career. I mean, I developed a specific area of research interest - and have consistently advocated using biofertilizers over and above chemical fertilizers for plant health management.”
Olubola Babalola wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We consider the unrestricted application of these principles of security to be the basic prerequisite for the development of equal, mutually advantageous co-operation. Security provides a solid basis for co-operation. The German Democratic Republic is ready to work together peacefully with all States in the economic, technological and scientific fields, in education, culture and sports.”
Erich Honecker (1912–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source