Political-reformer Quote by B.F. Skinner

“Mostly what is called political science seems to me a device, invented by university teachers, for avoiding that dangerous subject politics, without achieving science.”

— Alfred Cobban

“The new oligarchy must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists until in the end the politicians become merely the scientists’ puppets.”

— C.S. Lewis

Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the…

— John B. S. Haldane

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be…

— W. H. Auden

“I fear we must use bad science to accomplish good politics.”

— James Cambias

In politics experiments means revolutions.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“No amount of science will stop a politician.”

— John Sacklin

“Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm…

— Marie Brennan

“We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur…

— Karl Popper

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

— Jacob Bronowski

Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus which is the business of politics. What is relevant is…

— Timothy R Minnich

“Government scientists are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.”

— Steven Magee