Science Communicator

🇺🇸Carl Sagan

Science

1934–1996

"For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations."

🇺🇸Richard Feynman

Science

1918–1988

"This conference was worse than a Rorschach test: There's a meaningless inkblot, and the others ask you what you think you see, but when you tell them, they start arguing with you!"

🇬🇧Richard Dawkins

Science

atheism

b. 1941

"We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?"

🇬🇧Oliver Sacks

Science

1933–2015

"In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life."

🇺🇸Bill Bryson

Literature

b. 1951

"It was impossible to determine what he was saying, but I imagined he was telling all those present that they were nongs and maggots. I decided I quite liked watching the news with the sound off."

🇩🇪Sabine Hossenfelder

Science

b. 1976

"In our search for new ideas, beauty plays many roles. It's a guide, a reward, a motivation. It's also a systematic bias."

🇺🇸Michio Kaku

Science

b. 1947

"Killer asteroids are nature's way of asking, 'How's that space program coming along?'" - Anonymous"

🇺🇸Kate Marvel

Science

b. 2000

"I started my career as an astrophysicist, and then I realized that nowhere else in the universe is as good as here, right? This is the best planet."

🇬🇧Simon Singh

Medicine

b. 1964

"Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste."

🇺🇸Hank Green

Literature

b. 1980

"We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on."

🇬🇧Jim Al-Khalili

Science

b. 1962

"All scientists must communicate their work, for what is the point of learning new things about how the world works if you don't tell anyone about them?"

🇺🇸Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science

agnosticism

b. 1958

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."

🇺🇸Martin Gardner

Literature

1914–2010

"Mathematical magic combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick."

🇬🇧Jim Baggott

Literature

b. 1957

"Farewell to Reality by Jim Baggott, Review in The Guardian, 2013."

🇬🇧Heather Couper

Science

1949–2020

"But there are still many unanswered questions. The halo that surrounds our Galaxy is one mystery region... The centre of the Galaxy hides even more secrets."