Attention Quote by Barbara Boxer

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

— James Jeans

Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking…

— George Porter

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

Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular…

— Pete Seeger

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some…

— Martin Rees

Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in…

— John Hancock

I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

— Nina Fedoroff

I don't think any administration, when they come in, thinks that their job is to tell the scientists what the science looks like or…

— Gina McCarthy

Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government…

— David Titley

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry, careless or…

— Leo Kadanoff

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

— Anonymous