Authority Quote by David Landes

“Political and economic considerations exert pressure on science to answer strictly practical, immediate problems––in some cases by directed funding, in other coercive ways by…

— Kane X. Faucher

“They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know…

— Thomas Piketty

It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that…

— Peter Medawar

“Is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent upon economic…

— Michael Innes

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.

— Mark Twain

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

— Mark Twain

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures. This was the reason why I decided, as…

— C. V. Raman

“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking; a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine…

— Carl Sagan

“Science thrives on errors, cutting them away one by one. False conclusions are drawn all the time, but they are drawn tentatively. Hypotheses are…

— Carl Sagan

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

“As science attained unprecedented power through its ability to predict and control certain limited aspects of nature, it also began to overshadow our understanding…

— Dean Radin