"Such impudence! I am a member and the chairwoman of the Academy of Sciences. You cannot talk to me in such a way!"

"It is a basic tenet of migration and homeland theory that the geographical location of a language family’s …"

"Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex,…"

"We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific con…"

"Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the Earth peopled as ever by the inept."

"The scientific method I was closest to was the Linnaean: discover, collect, examine."

"The world is always open, waiting to be discovered."