Future Quote by Barack Obama

I would say it's important for scientists to speak out when they can and when they can be listened to.

— Lisa Randall

I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.

— Alan Alda

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

— Peter Bergen

It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of scientists, well, that gets scientists worried.…

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

“The technological perils that science serves up, its implicit challenge to received wisdom, and its perceived difficulty, are all reasons for some people to…

— Carl Sagan

Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite…

— Ann Coulter

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

— Simone Weil

“Making informed—and ethically sound—choices are the basis of many scientific studies, and Sections 2, 3 and 4 analyze the challenges”

— Scientific American

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

— Naomi Wolf

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them.…

— Stephen Fry

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

— John Charles Polanyi

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

— Max Planck