If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips. It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. Ibsen 26 Life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. 28 Man can't help hoping even if he is a scientist. He can only hope more accurately.
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Rostand 31 Scientists tell us the universe is made up of protons, electrons, and neutrons. They forgot to mention morons.