Politics Quote by C.S. Lewis

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

— Steven Magee

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

“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

Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable…

— Doug Casey

“No amount of science will stop a politician.”

— John Sacklin

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

— Nina Fedoroff

“Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves…

— B.F. Skinner

“This is more like the scientists I know. Authority outweighs evidence, at least for as long as the authority lives.”

— Frans de Waal

But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Every profession has an ideology and a drive for power that goes far beyond its achievements and it is the task of democracy to…

— Paul Feyerabend

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for…

— Edward Abbey

The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short…

— Bill Gates