Apologetic Quote Of The Day

As a scientist, it makes me very frustrated when people think that scientists are some kind of pure, disinterested, truth-seeking demigods. We're human just like everyone else and we are driven by both good and bad motivations. Those motivations affect our science just as much as the motivations of businessmen affect their business or the motivations of politicians affect their politics. - Neil Shenvi (research scientist at Duke University; PhD in Theoretical Chemistry;