Ability Quote by Bill Gates

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

— Nina Fedoroff

Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out…

— David Suzuki

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

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial…

— Johnny Ball

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

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

— Bill Foster

“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

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.

— Leonard Mlodinow

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because…

— Frank Press

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

As science becomes more specialized, it becomes harder for scientists to check each other, which makes it easier to get away with fraud.

— Alex Boese

As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of the world's…

— Joseph J. Romm