Corruption Quote by Carl Sagan

Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded…

— Martin Gardner

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

My study is NOT as a climatologist, but from a completely different perspective in which I am an expert … For decades, as a…

— Burt Rutan

“More than that, these adverts sell a dubious world view. They sell the idea that science is not about the delicate relationship between evidence…

— Ben Goldacre

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

— David Landes

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is…

— Anthony Standen

“The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not.”

— A.E. Samaan

These are people from everywhere, from Lawrence Livermore and JPL and Sandia National Labs, the FBI, all over the place, real scientists who see…

— Adam Savage

“I hear them marvel at my work--my indignant science. I hear them call out in fear of what they see. And there are some…

— E.B. Hudspeth

“Scientists were the embodiment of this new-fangled sobriety—impartial, businesslike, colorless, and reliable. Or so people assumed. For in actual practice, it was their supposed…

— David Van Reybrouck

“Credibility comes from results. Everything else is just marketing.”

— Richie Norton

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about…

— George Lois