Amount Quote by Bobby Ray Inman

Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of…

— Michael Polanyi

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish.

— George M. Whitesides

Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which…

— Carl Sagan

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may…

— Joseph Rotblat

There is an ever-widening gap between what science allows and what we should actually do. There are many doors science can open that should…

— Martin Rees

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

— Anne Roe

“The role of science is not to serve the demands of the moment and provide easy answers when society demands them. Its purpose remains…

— Barbora Jiřincová

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the…

— Alan Kay

Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other…

— Hannes Alfven

Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities, science will…

— Margaret Beckett

There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer