Concerned Quote by Arthur William Galston

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences…

— Eric Hobsbawm

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then…

— Ben Goldacre

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

— Felix Bloch

As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific…

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental.…

— Brian Greene

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

— Anne Roe

And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

— Tycho Brahe

“Every scientist should, after all, regard it as his duty to tell the public, in a generally intelligible way, about what he is doing”

— Konrad Lorenz

Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and it can…

— Arthur William Galston

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

— Deepak Chopra

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

— Elvin C. Stakman