“There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.”
E. J. Hobsbawm
“Scientists investigate that which already is;Engineers create that which has never been.'”
Albert Einstein
“Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.”
Dave Barry
“And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By they I mean computers: I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)”
“Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.”
“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.”
Claude Levi-Strauss
“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
Arthur C. Clarke
